Re: White elephants

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Dear Bhante,

Thanks, for the quotations. Yes it's great stuff. My printer's a'churnin as I write. It's much easier to take in all this encyclopedic material in the context of a concrete question, like Jim's colophon and the white elephants. Thanks too for the concise list of Pali titles.

Here's the paragraph from Bode (p 47) for those who might not have it handy:

"Bayin Nang, one of the most striking figures in the history of Burma, the sometime general and vice-regent of Ta-bi-shwe-hti and successor to the throne, united Burma and Pegu into one empire and carried his conquests into the Northern Shaan States, Laos and Siam. He was a zealous Buddhist, zealous, indeed, to intolerance, and forced an outward profession of Buddhism on all his subjects, native or foreign. Nevertheless, all we hear of him in the Saasanava.msa is that in 1578 'the Lord of many white elephants', then at the height of his power but near his end, appointed his son regent of Laos and sent the thera Saddhammacakkasaami with him to 'purify religion' in the conquered province. A few names of scholarly monks and their works are associated with Laos in this period. Ñaa.navilaasa wrote the Sa"nkhyaapakaasaka, and Sirima"ngala a .tiikaa on that work and the commentary Ma"ngaladiipanii. A thera whose name is not mentioned wrote the Uppaatasanti."

best regards,

/Rett