Preservation of Dai Buddhist Manuscripts in Sipsong Panna DIRI Journal  หน้า 89
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This project aligns with the national focus on protecting religious culture in minority areas, specifically the Dai community in Yunnan. Research has identified more than 400 Dai Buddhist manuscripts, with 152 on palm leaves and 211 on Chinese paper. Key figures include Yanxiang from the Xishuangbanna State Ethnic Research Institute, noting about 1,000 palm-leaf scriptures exist in Yunnan. Extensive fieldwork has been conducted in Dai temples where numerous manuscripts are held. The Dai ethnic group, one of China’s 55 minorities, has a population exceeding 1 million, mainly concentrated in Yunnan's Xishuangbanna. This article also highlights the distinctiveness of sa-paper, made from the sa tree pulp.

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-Dai Buddhist manuscripts
-Xishuangbanna
-Palm-leaf culture
-Sa-paper production
-Minority cultures in China

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This project is in accordance with the national emphasis on the protection and development of religious culture in minority areas.3 Most of the Dai Buddhist manuscripts in Sipsong Panna are made from the leaves of the palm tree, and sa-paper.4 More than 400 copies in total have been collected from different locations. Of these, 152 are palm-leaf manuscripts, 211 are Chinese paper ones and 40 are "Zanha Libretto."5 According to Yanxiang, the head of Xishuangbanna State Ethnic Research Institute and director of the State Palm-Leaf Culture Research Center, there are about 1,000 copies of palm-leaf scriptures in the Yunnan, and countless sa-paper manuscripts.6 This author has done extensive fieldwork in Dai temples in places such as Menghai and interviewed the leading Buddhist monk(大佛爷) in the region, the abbot of Kublang Monastery (祜巴龙庄). According to this fieldwork, there are many palm-leaf manuscripts and sa-paper manuscripts held in Dai Buddhist temple libraries. 3 The Dai group is one of the 55 minority groups in China. According to the officially published investigation results of 1990 Chinese Population Census, the total population of the Dai in China is about 1,115,900, and 98.55% inhabit in Yunnan Province, of which those in Xishuangbanna State are 296,930. the rest are mainly distributed in places such as Dehong Autonomous Prefecture (nearly 700,000 people), Gengma, Menglian, Jinggu, Yuanjiang, Xinping and Jinping. 4 Sa-Paper is paper manufactured from the pulp of the sa tree, a kind of mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera). For more information on Sa-Paper, see Volker Grabowsky, "Tai manuscripts in the Dhamma script domain: surveying, preservation and documentation," part 1 Manuscript Cultures, Autumn/Winter 2008, pp. 16-23. 5 Yanxiang Zai. “On Compilation, Translation and Collation of Dai’s Palm-Leaf Scriptures In Sipsongbanna”. Palm-Leaf Culture and Construction of a Harmonious Society of the Dai. Gen. Edi. Guo Shan, Zhou Ya, Yanxiang Zai Yunnan University Press, July 2008. At that time Mr. Yanxiang Zai was director of Xishuangbanna State People’s Government Ethnic & Religious Affairs Authority, in charge of the collection and collation work of Buddhist manuscripts. Noted by the Author. 6 Another argument is 3,000 scriptures. See the propaganda materials of introduction to The Complete Collection of Chinese Palm-Leaf Scripture. But the Author thinks this figure should not be the amount of the existing palm-leaf manuscripts in Sipsong Panna, but the one including the number of part of sa-paper manuscripts.
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