King of Siam Tipiṭaka Commemorative Lecture 2004

King of Siam "Pāḷi Tipiṭaka" 1893 Edition: A Commemorative Lecture in the Presence of Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana, King's Chulalongkorn Chulachomklao's Granddaughter, March 30, 2004.

"Pāḷi" is an old Indian dialect of the mass, spoken in the Indian Subcontinent over 3000 years ago. During the lifetime of the Buddha, Pāḷi was the Dhamma-language of the Buddhist teaching and thus finally became the written medium of Buddhist Theravāda scripture, the Tipiṭaka.

During an early period, the Pāḷi Tipiṭaka was committed to memory and was propagated by Theravāda Buddhist monks orally from generation to generation. It was first written on palm leaves in the first century BC or some 400 years after the demise of Buddha.

The first written Pāḷi Tipiṭaka took place in old Sri Lanka when the entire Tipiṭaka was inscribed on palm leaves --in Sinhalese script-- for the first time. Consequently, the Tipiṭaka on palm leave was the conventional depository of the Buddhist Theravada scripture for over 2000 years.

In 1893, King Chulachomklao of Siam revolutionised the traditional Buddhist depository convention --the King printed the Tipiṭaka in Book-form for the first time. In stead of inscribing the sacred Pāli texts by hand in old Khmer script, the King ordered a the first printing edition, totaling 39 volumes, to be printed in modern-typeface of the Siam script.

With the efficiency of publishing technology of the day, such as, Western printing machinery and local book-binding in Bangkok, these newly printed Siam-script editions of the Pāḷi were sent as royal gifts to no less than 260 institutes across five continents in 1896.

Digital Archives form the M.L. Maniratana Bunnag Dhamma Society Fund's World Tipiṭaka Project in Roman script, 1999-2007.

The Great Buddhist "Tipiṭaka" International Council B.E. 2500 (1956) : http://www.flickr.com/photos/dhammasociety/sets/72157600329146593/
World Tipiṭaka Edition in Roman Script 1956-2005 : http://www.flickr.com/photos/dhammasociety/sets/72157600416138576/
Tipiṭaka Studies Reference 2007 : http://www.flickr.com/photos/dhammasociety/sets/72157600406425037/
Royal Patron of Tipiṭaka : http://buddhavasse.blogspot.com/2007/06/royal-patron-of-tipitaka.html
Dhamma Society Fund
http://www.dhammasociety.org

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