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The World Tipiṭaka Project
The Buddhist Era 2500 Great International Council Pāḷi Tipiṭaka
40-Volume Edition in Roman Script B.E. 2548 (2005)
In the Buddhist Era 2542 (1999) the M.L. Maniratana Bunnag Dhamma Society Fund under the Patronage of His Holiness Somdet Phra Ñaṇasaṃvara, the Supreme Patriarch of Thailand, initiated the Commemorative Romanised Pāḷi Tipiṭaka Project, upon request from abroad, to support the printing of the sacred texts of the Buddha’s word in Roman script.
The complete 40-volume Romanised edition of the 25-century old teaching of the Buddhist Theravāda tradition in the orthodox and original Pāḷi language has never been published before anywhere in the world.
This manuscript, known as the Chaṭṭhasaṅgīti Council Edition, the Pāḷi-language text in Burmese Script, was the result of the only Great International Council convened in B.E. 2500 (1956) at Yangon by 2,500 erudite Theravāda Buddhist monks from all over the world... (Read full text)
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The Importance of the Pāḷi Tipiṭaka
Excerpt from preface to the World Tipiṭaka Edition in Roman script
by
Venerable Phra Dhammapiṭaka
(P. A. Payutto)
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Policy Framework for Tipiṭaka Presentation 
The Buddhist Era 2500 Great International Council Edition
40 Volumes in Roman Script B.E. 2548 (2005)
Presented as a donation by
His Majesty the King's Elder Sister
Her Royal Higness Princess Galyani Vadhana of Thailand
Honorary President of
Tipiṭaka Presentation Worldwide
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The Inaugural Presentation from Thailand :
Why the Republic of Sri Lanka & the Kingdom of Sweden ?
On September 13, 2005 (B.E. 2548), Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana Krom Luang Naradhiwas Rajanagarindra, the elder sister of His Majesty King of Thailand, presents to the Kingdom of Sweden "Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka Buddhavasse 2500" --the Buddhist Era 2500 Great International Council Pāḷi Tipiṭaka-- the world's first International Pāḷi Tipiṭaka edition in 40 volumes, published in Roman script in 2005 by the Dhamma Society Fund under the patronage of His Holiness the Supreme Patriarch of Thailand.
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