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Cataloguing efforts uncover a royal gift to the University of St Andrews from the King of Siam in 1896

In 1893, King Chulalongkorn ordered the first printing ever of the Tipitaka (or, “the three baskets,” the Pali canon which forms the doctrinal foundation of Theravada Buddhism) which had previously only existed in…

Date
20 June 2012
Category
collections highlights Rare Book finds

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