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A Special Announcement & Merits Dedication
by
Mahā Bodhi Society of India

At Sri Mahā Bodhi, Buddhagaya, State of Bihar, Republic of India
February 12, B.E. 2551 (2008)

As we have all assembled here today under the sacred Bodhi Tree in the premises of the Mahā Bodhi Mahā Vihāra, Buddhagaya, for the inauguration of the 3rd Annual 10-days Pāḷi Tipiṭaka Chanting, we wish to dedicate this year’s Chanting in memory of Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana Krom Luang Naradhiwas Rajanagarindra, the elder sister of His Majesty the King of Thailand, Royal Patron of the World Tipiṭaka Project and Honorary President of the Tipiṭaka Presentation to International Institutions Worldwide.

We wish to recall that in November, 2007, Her Royal Highness graciously presented the 40-volume Pāḷi Tipiṭaka Edition in Roman script to the Mahā Bodhi Society of India, the first institution in the Republic of India to have received the World Tipiṭaka Edition. It was published in 2005 by the Dhamma Society Fund under the patronage of His Holiness the Supreme Patriarch of Thailand. This Royal Gift of Tipiṭaka has since been enshrined at the Jaya Sri Mahā Bodhi Vihara of the Mahā Bodhi Society of India.

Following this historic royal presentation, Dhamma Society Fund Thailand, has now published 600 sets of the Majjhimanikāya in 3 Volumes from the Roman-script Tipiṭaka edition, to be presented to the Mahā Bodhi Society of India today --February 12, 2008-- for distribution as a Gift of Dhamma to all the Venerable Monks participating in this year’s Tipiṭaka Chanting at Buddhagaya.

The merits accrued from the Tipiṭaka printing and Chanting, the noblest act to preserve the words of the Buddha in today's world, will be a supreme homage to the Holy Triple Gem, as well as a humble gesture of dedication merits to the most esteemed Patron of the Tipiṭaka, the late Princess Galyani Vadhana of Thailand.

(Thai version - ภาคแปลภาษาไทย)