Preservation of Dai Buddhist Manuscripts in Sipsong Panna
…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 o…
…ing 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 popu…