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.