Romanized citation: Thai Kaccaayanasuttaniddesa
From: navako
Message: 1225
Date: 2005-08-12
Romanized citation: Thai Kaccaayanasuttaniddesa
From: navako
Message: 1225
Date: 2005-08-12
Another noble attempt at Romanizing the un-Romanizable:
> Publisher?:
> mahaavidyaalayamahacu.laala"nkara.naraajaavidyaalaaya
> vidyaajetapaa.liisiksaabuddhaghosa nagarapa.thuum (Nakorn Pathom?)
Yes this publisher is evidently one of the 15+ (?) branches of the M.C.L.
university campus network. I assume the town is "Nakhon Phanom" --I have
been there. It is adjacent to That Phanom --the latter being a major site
of Buddhism pilgrimage on that stretch of the Mekong, and a focus of
ritual/monastic activity.
According to Thai official history, the temple was mysteriously destroyed
"by the rain" in 1975 --a more likely explanation would be that the U.S.
carpet-bombing of Laos (less than 100 meters away) managed to erroneously
destroy this temple on the Thai side of the dotted line.
In any case, the destruction of the temple was absolute, and what now stands
there is a very phony "reconstruction"; however, a few interesting
pre-Buddhist artefacts were uncovered and put into the museum in the process
of "reconstructing" the site.
E.M.
--
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man straightens, as the fletcher straightens the arrow.
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