via Bangkok Post, 28 May 2023: A collection of Thai palm-leaf manuscripts have been added into the Unesco Memory of the World Register.
A national collection of palm-leaf manuscripts that Thailand nominated for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation’s (Unesco) global list has won recognition as an entry among 64 newly included international inscriptions, the government said on Saturday.
Thailand nominated the National Collection of Palm-Leaf Manuscripts of the Phra That Phanom Chronicle, which narrates the tale of the Buddha’s breastbones that were brought from India for enshrinement at Phrathat Phanom — widely recognised as a sacred Buddhist centre in the Mekong region.
Government spokesman, Anucha Burapachaisri, said the nominated inscription, Lilit Nanthopananthasut Kham Luang, a Buddhist work penned in 1736 by Prince Narathibet of the kingdom of Ayutthaya, did not receive approval from Unesco’s International Advisory Committee (IAC) to be included among this year’s new items of documentary heritage on the Memory of the World.
Source: Thailand celebrates its sixth Unesco listing
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