Buddhist Ordination Ceremony

by [KAMMAVACA];

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Book description: [Burma], ca. 1830. Manuscript in Pali. Sixteen leaves (7 x 52 cm.). Decorated margins throughout. Text is held in place by two strings run through holes in the text and secured by ivory rings (all original). Covers are two orange-lacquered pieces of teak, decorated by hand and with bevelled edges. Some minor rubbing to cover paintings and expected minor wear along page edges but overall a very good example of this book form.Kammavaca are among the most sacred of Burmese religious texts. Kammavaca consist of nine Khandakas from the Pali Vinaya Pitaka, each of which relates to a specific ceremony associated with monks of the Theravada school of Buddhism. Kammavaca were usually commissioned as works of merit to be presented to the monastery when a son entered the Buddhist Order as a novice or became ordained as a monk (as is the one offered here).

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