Sorry, i mispoke, Siem Reap not PP. However, Philippe has
collected some good stuff as you know and it maybe a good
place to find the secondary sources you need. One of his
students will hopefully come study for his PhD at UCR next
year. Did you find it useful when you were there?
I assume that the PDPN is referring to "Laos" as "greater
Laos" (meaning Northern Thailand and Laos). I'll check in my
office. The PDPN is relatively useless for Pali material in
Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia. A number of scholars called
Buddhist texts found in/composed in N.Thailand as "Lao." In
fact, N.Thailand was even referred to as Lao by Siamese
officials, one of the main missionary newspapers in Chiang Mai
was called the "Lao News." I published something about this (i
think in that collected volume by the National Library of Laos
last year edited by David). In there, I think I also talk
about Saddhatissa who referred to all the texts he found in
Chiang Mai as "Lao Buddhist texts." The Mangala-attha-dipani
(if that is what you are referring to) is usually attributed
to 1516 (or so) Chiang Mai. One of the "four classics" of the
so-called "Chiang Mai Golden Age of Pali Scholarship." Daniel
Veidlinger writes about this in his new book from U.Hawaii
Press (Spreading the Dhamma). I write about this text and its
use in education in a book that hopefully will printed in the
next few months. There are dozens of new Thai editions,
translations, etc. Dr. Supaphanh na Bangchang has written
extensively about the text in Thai. An English edition would
be very helpful and welcome. Its a good project. Please do! We
need one. It is the most common text, besides the
Dhammapada-Atthakatha, used in modern Thai monastic education.
It forms the basis of several ecclesiastical exams.
Best and thanks for the update,
justin
---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:42:00 +0700
>From: "Eisel Mazard" <Parajanaka@...>
>Subject: [palistudy] Mangala commentary & Lao misc
>To: palistudy@yahoogroups.com
>
>To start with, Justin (& all assembled), I had been meaning
to ask
>about the (Lao-Pali) commentary on the Mangala-sutta, found under
>various titles starting with Mangala-attha-.
>
>Nyanatustia names its origin as Chiang Mai, but the Dict. of
proper
>names attributes its authorship to 16th century Laos. I know
almost
>nothing about the text, but recently discovered that I *do*
have a
>complete e-text for it --and it is a very lengthy treatise
indeed.
>
>As this is possibly one of the very few Pali compositions
from Laos,
>has there ever been an interest in an edition / translation here
>--even if it is inspired more by nationalism than the text
itself?
>
>> ... as does Mahasarakham Univ. library (both closer than BKK,
>
>Yes, I should find some excuse to visit the collection at
Mahasarakham
>(but, to me, it will always be "Mahasalagam"). Mme Filliozat
was very
>much surprised when I explained that a large number of
>Vientiane-origin MS are available there, as well as at
Yasothon, and,
>of course, in the BKK National Library (due to the events of
1828,
>etc.). She was denied access to the National Library (in
BKK), and
>had resolved not to try again, despite my encouragement that
she do
>so.
>
>> well, actually the train to BKK is faster than the bus to CM).
>
>Especially now that ALL THE MINOR BORDER CROSSINGS BETWEEN
LAOS AND
>THAILAND ARE CLOSED! Even the border at Huay Xai (viz., on the
>Mekong, near the so-called golden traingle) is now closed,
due to the
>recent military regime change in Bangkok.
>
>> The CKS in Phnom
>> Penh should have them all as well.
>
>*Ahem!* The CKS is in Siem Reap, not Phnom Penh! BTW, I finally
>received a belated and apologetic reply from the Institute
Bhouddique
>(in Phnom Penh, not Sem Reap) --indeed, from no less a person
than the
>"Chief of Mores" (quite a title)!
>
>> However, I can understand
>> your reluctance to pay the border/visa fees to go in and out
>> of Laos.
>
>This also relates to the practical difficulties of being
employed at a
>Lao government agency --and a daily publication at that. I
am not on
>vacation, but conducting my studies in the time left over by
my "job".
>
>E.M.
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Dept. of Religious Studies
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University of California, Riverside
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