Text, folio 13 (recto) from a Kammavacha: Buddhist ordination text
1800s
Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1945.172.13.a
In premodern Burma, lay people commissioned lavishly ornamented manuscripts for ceremonial occasions, when officiants would read aloud from the text. Written in black lacquer, the text is in the language of Pali written in a Burmese script. It contains ordination rites and pro...
Manuscript
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Source image fields (4)
Terms
Culture
Myanmar (Burma)
Technique
Leaf: lacquer and gilding on cloth
Genre
Manuscript
Department
Indian and Southeast Asian Art
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