Burmese Minye Theinga Thu Amei (The Questions of Minye Theinga)

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Burma, 18th century. MS 108

This Burmese palm-leaf manuscript contains a dialogue between a court official and a monk on the matters of the Buddhist cosmology. The Buddhist cosmology consists of a three-world system, where the world is flat with Heaven above and Hell below, called the Desire Realm, the Form Realm, and the Formless Realm.

Burmese palm-leaf manuscript containing Minye Theinga Thu Amei (The questions of Minye Theinga).
Burmese palm-leaf manuscript containing Minye Theinga Thu Amei (The questions of Minye Theinga).

Bibliography

Leeming, David. “Buddhist Cosmology” in A Dictionary of Asian Mythology. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001). http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195120523.001.0001/acref-9780195120523-e-77

Burmese Minye Theinga Thu Amei (The Questions of Minye Theinga), Burma, 18th century. University of Oregon, Special Collections & University Archives, MS 108. https://alliance-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/3uoa1r/CP71310367280001451