King Bayinnaung Buddhist merit-inscription tradition
Southeast Asian Traditions Textual corpus / teaching
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About this record
King Bayinnaung Buddhist merit-inscription tradition is cataloged as a Textual corpus / teaching within Southeast Asian Traditions. Its candidate country context is “Myanmar (Burma)” and its period or origin is “Sixteenth-century bell-inscription corpus; UNESCO dates the donation to 1557 and records 2017 Memory of the World registration.” It is associated with the parent tradition “Myanmar Theravada Buddhist royal donation and merit-making 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
- King Bayinnaung Bell Inscription; Bayinnaung Bell inscriptions; Shwezigon Bayinnaung Bell
- Parent tradition
- Myanmar Theravada Buddhist royal donation and merit-making traditions
- Public geographic context
- Myanmar (Burma)
- Period / origin
- Sixteenth-century bell-inscription corpus; UNESCO dates the donation to 1557 and records 2017 Memory of the World registration
- Living / historical status
- Extant epigraphic corpus in protected pagoda custody
- Access / protocol
- Scholarly / historical only
- Evidence status
- Directly cited
Geography
CandidateMyanmar (Burma)
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.
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Stable attribution
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King Bayinnaung Buddhist merit-inscription tradition. Atlas of Religious and Esoteric Lineages, record 3807. https://esotericlineages.com/entry/3807
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