Thank you all for the replies and the references. Jon, I see you have a
paper in the SAOS Burma research journal too - congratulations.

I will do some further research and try compile a list of resources and
report back.

Regards

Bankei

2009/2/20 Jon Fernquest <bayinnaung@...>

> Dear Piya Tan;
>
> Thanks for the info about that conference. Peter Skilling lead a
> graduate student conference at Chulalongkorn University last week
> also. Wanted to go but didn't know where to find the info.
>
> There is also a research group that has little mini conferences at
> Mahachulalongkorn Buddhist University that has relocated up to
> Ayutthaya. No longer at Sanam Luang. This was announced on Justin
> McDaniels Thai Studies list at UC Riverside.
>
> There is also this talk coming up:
>
> Kamma and Control: The Pagodas of Yangon, Old and New
> By: Dr. Donald M. Stadtner
> Date: Thursday, February 26, 2009, Time: 7:30 p.m, Place: The Siam Society
>
> Donald also just published a pretty fascinating study of the stories
> associated with hair relics at Kyaik-ti-yo Pagoda in Burma (the one
> balancing/hanging on a rock). The paper traces the stories from the
> times when they were in Pali and in the monastery to the times when
> they left the monastery and grew folktale dimensions to them, a lot
> remains to be done on this sort of thing:
> http://web.soas.ac.uk/burma/volume6/SBBR6-2008Stadtner.pdf
>
> BTW Southeast Asian palaeography (development of scripts from Indian
> scripts in Buddhist inscriptions) is a wide open field, almost
> untouched, especially Mon and Burmese.
>
> With metta,
> Jon Fernquest
>
> --- In Pali@yahoogroups.com <Pali%40yahoogroups.com>, Piya Tan
> <dharmafarer@...> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Jon, for Peter's interesting article.
> >
> > We have just finished the 3-day ISEAS "Buddhism Across Asia"
> conference at
> > the Orchard Hotel today, where Peter Skilling, Prapod
> Assavavirulhakarn and
> > a galaxy of well known scholars presented papers. The Nobel laureate
> Amartya
> > Sen gave the closing address.
> >
> > With metta,
> >
> > Piya Tan
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Jon Fernquest <bayinnaung@...> wrote:
> >
> > > Dear List Members;
> > >
> > > "Does anyone know what the oldest surviving Pali manuscript is, and
> > > where it is located now?"
> > >
> > > If you're interested in early Pali inscriptions, you'll want to
> check out
> > > this
> > > online paper on "Ye Dhammaa" Dvaravati inscriptions in Pallava
> script in
> > > Thailand dated palaeographically to 600-800 AD, if I remember
> correctly:
> > >
> > > Traces of the Dharma, Peter Skilling Bulletin de l'École française
> > > d'Extrême-Orient Year 2003 Volume 90 Issue 90-91 pp. 273-287
> > >
> > > http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/befeo_0336-
> > > 1519_2003_num_90_1_3615?_Prescripts_Search_isPortletOuvrage=false
> > >
> > > Or just goto:
> > > http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/revue/befeo
> > >
> > > And look for the 2003 article by Peter Skilling.
> > >
> > > With metta,
> > > Jon Fernquest
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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