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The Great International Council B.E, 2500 (1957)

Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka Buddhavasse 2500

The Buddhist Era 2500 Great International Council Pāḷi Tipiṭaka
Roman Script B.E. 2548 (2005)

In the Buddhist Era 2542 or 1999 A.D., the M.L. Maniratana Bunnag Dhamma Society Fund under the patronage of His Holiness Somdet Phra Ñāṇasaṃvara, the Supreme Patriarch of Thailand, initiated the Commemorative Pāḷi Tipiṭaka Project, upon request from abroad, to support the printing of the sacred texts of the Buddha’s words in Roman script.

This manuscript edition, known as the Chaṭṭhasaṅgīti Council Tipiṭaka, the Pāḷi language text in Burmese Script, was the result of the first and the only Great International Council convened in 1956 by 2,500 erudite Theravāda Buddhist monks from all over the world at Yangon. This Pāḷi Tipiṭaka has thus been considered as the great international and authoritative edition for the Theravāda Buddhasāsana the world over.

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.