page_title: Tripiṭaka tablets at Kuthodaw Pagoda
section_title: UNESCO inscription
hierarchical_section_title: Tripiṭaka tablets at Kuthodaw Pagoda / UNESCO inscription
caption_attribution_description: English: A UNESCO plaque indicating that the Maha Lawkamarazein or Kuthodaw Inscription Shrines at Kuthodaw Pagoda, Mandalay, Myanmar, which contain the World's largest book in the form of 729 marble slabs on which are inscribed the Tripitaka, were inscribed on to the Memory of the World Register in 2013.
context_page_description: Stone tablets inscribed with the Tripiṭaka stand upright in the grounds of the Kuthodaw Pagoda at the foot of Mandalay Hill in Mandalay, Myanmar. The work was commissioned by King Mindon as part of his transformation of Mandalay into a royal capital. It was completed in 1868. The text contains the Buddhist canon in the Burmese language.
  There are 730 tablets and 1,460 pages. Each page is 1.07 metres wide, 1.53 metres tall and 13 centimetres thick. Each stone tablet has its own roof and precious gem on top in a small cave-like structure of Sinhalese relic casket type called kyauksa gu, and they are arranged around a central golden pagoda.
context_section_description: In 2013, UNESCO plaque indicating that the Maha Lawkamarazein or Kuthodaw Inscription Shrines at Kuthodaw Pagoda, which contain the world's largest book in the form of 729 marble slabs on which are inscribed the Tripitaka, were inscribed on to the Memory of the World Register.
caption: UNESCO plaque
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