Research & Article
The Theravaṃsa Has Always Been Here: K. 1355 from Angkor Borei
By Peter Skilling
Published on 12 May 2024
Inscription and Manuscript
Location of original sources
Journal of the Siam Society (JSS) Vol. 107 No. 2 (2019)
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The Theravaṃsa Has Always Been Here: K. 1355 from Angkor Borei
A neatly lettered Pali inscription from Angkor Borei gives the ye dhammā stanza followed by verses spoken by Gotama Buddha just after his awakening. It adds to the corpus of Pali citation inscriptions of Southeast Asia and to the small corpus of early Middle-Indic inscriptions of ancient Cambodia.