Mahāvaṃsa Great Chronicle manuscript tradition
Buddhist Traditions Textual corpus / teaching
Created and maintained by Ayara and Kyle Jonathan B@KJB_and_AYARA
Neutral catalog summary
About this record
Mahāvaṃsa Great Chronicle manuscript tradition is cataloged as a Textual corpus / teaching within Buddhist Traditions. Its candidate country context is “Sri Lanka” and its period or origin is “Historical chronicle tradition; UNESCO describes narrative coverage from the sixth century BCE to 1815 CE and records 2023 registration, which is not treated as a single composition span.” It is associated with the parent tradition “Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhist historiographical traditions.”
This summary is assembled only from the record fields shown below. It does not add ritual instructions, doctrinal claims or inferred geography.
Record fields
- Alternate / historical names
- Mahavamsa; Mahāvaṃsa; Great Chronicle of Sri Lanka
- Parent tradition
- Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhist historiographical traditions
- Public geographic context
- Sri Lanka
- Period / origin
- Historical chronicle tradition; UNESCO describes narrative coverage from the sixth century BCE to 1815 CE and records 2023 registration, which is not treated as a single composition span
- Living / historical status
- Extant manuscript tradition in current institutional custody and scholarship
- Access / protocol
- Scholarly / historical only
- Evidence status
- Directly cited
Geography
CandidateSri Lanka
This record also has global, transnational, diaspora, textual or doctrinal context and is not reduced to one country.
Public geographic context is limited to country level or broader. A documented site may still be named as the record’s public identity, but no subnational location field or coordinates are published.
Where to read more
A citation identifies a source to consult; it does not establish every claim in this record.
Stable attribution
Cite this record
Mahāvaṃsa Great Chronicle manuscript tradition. Atlas of Religious and Esoteric Lineages, record 3702. https://esotericlineages.com/entry/3702
Created and maintained by Ayara and Kyle Jonathan B@KJB_and_AYARA · https://x.com/KJB_and_AYARA