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  • Life of Buddha Burmese Manuscript 22, Volume 1
  • A bohisattva seated on a platform
  • MS Thai 3, four leaves
  • Illustrated Sinhalese covers (inside) showing the events
  • Attributes of Brahmā (Tibetan Tshaṅs-pa, the pure one) in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Attributes of Brahmā (Tibetan Tshaṅs-pa, the pure one) in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Attributes of Brahmā (Tibetan Tshaṅs-pa, the pure one) in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Attributes of Brahmā (Tibetan Tshaṅs-pa, the pure one) in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • The ploughing ceremony with the baby Bodhisatta mediating
  • Prince Siddhattha is shown travelling to a park in a palanquin drawn by courtiers and soldiers. On his was Prince Siddhattha sees the three signs, an old man, a sick man and a corpse, that lead to his renunciation of secular life.
  • The procession to the ploughing ceremony
  • A herald reads from a black parabaik and announces that Prince Siddhattha will prove he is proficientt in the art of shooting arrows, archery to the people
  • A herald reads from a black parabaik and announces
  • MS Thai 3, detail from one of the leaves
  • Thorn tree for punishment of adultry (top left) and ghouls in hell with Phra Malai above them (top right), the poor woodcutter picks lotus flowers in a pond (bottom right) and presents them to Phra Malai (bottom left)
  • Burmese-Pali Manuscript.
  • A poor woodcutter picks lotus flowers in a pond (detail of right side)
  • A bodhisattva in heaven with accompanying angels (detail of bottom right)
  • Bodhisattva in heaven with accompanying angels (detail of bottom left)
  • The monk Phra Malai converses with Indra in heaven (top right) and a bodhisattva in heaven with accompanying angels (bottom)
  • Devas (minor divinities) accompanying a bodhisattva in heaven) (detail)
  • A poor woodcutter picks lotus flowers in a pond (right) and presents them to the monk Phra Malai (left)
  • Phra Malai receives alms offerings from lay people (detail of the right side)
  • The birth tale of Candakumara: on the left, the god Indra descends from heaven to destroy a ceremonial parasol marking an evil ceremony created in order to sacrifice the hero Prince Candakumara. To the right Candakumara on the throne; he is about to be sacrificed on a pyre by the three evil brahimns who are seated before him
  • The monk Phra Malai receiving a lotus bouquet, from a poor woodcutter, to carry up to heaven to offer at the Chulamani Pagoda or Chedi (Detail of left side)
  • The god Narada descending from heaven to dispel evil doctrines (left). To his right a princess on the throne and, with two attendants, prays for help from heaven. This story of Nerada is one of the last ten birth tales of the Buddha's previous livess
  • The monk Phra Malai and the god Indra conversing
  • China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.