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โครงการหนังสออเล็กทรอนกส เฉลมพระเกียรตสมเด็จพระเทพรตนราชสดาฯ สยามบรมราชกุมาร ี

Royal Message

Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana

Krom Luang Naradhiwas Rajanagarindra
Honorary President of the Pāḷi Tipiṭaka Presentation in Roman-Script Edition Worldwide

I am delighted and profoundly honoured to present a 4 0 -volume Pāḷi Tipiṭaka in

Roman-script edition to leading institutions worldwide. This occasion is especially meaningful
because this publication is the world’s first Pāḷi Tipiṭaka Edition in Roman script -- from the
only Great International Council, convened by 2 , 5 0 0 Theravāda Buddhist monks in the
Buddhist Era 2500 or 1956 A.D. It is, therefore, a Heritage of Humanity Enlightenment which

has been preserved for over 2500 years.

The three inaugural Pāḷi Tipiṭaka editions were published by the Dhamma Society
under the Patronage of the Supreme Patriarch of Thailand. The first inaugural edition was
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presented to the people of Sri Lanka on March 6, 0 0 5 . I went on a Pilgrimage to Colombo
upon the invitation of the President of Sri Lanka for the presentation of the special edition
which is now preserved at the Presidential Mansion in Colombo. The special edition for the
Kingdom of Thailand was presented to the people of Thailand on August 15, 2005 and is now
preserved at the Constitutional Court of the Kingdom of Thailand in Bangkok. The special

edition for the western world was presented on September 13, 2005 to the Kingdom of Sweden
and is now preserved at the Uppsala University Library.

The presentation of the International Pāḷi Tipiṭaka in Roman-script edition is a
meritorious act following the publication of the Tipiṭaka in Siam-script edition by my

Grandfather, King Chulalongkorn Chulachomklao of Siam, who in 1893 had the Pāḷi Tipiṭaka
printed in book-form for the first time in the world. Over two hundred and sixty of these sets
were presented to leading institutions worldwide. In Sri Lanka and Sweden, one set of these
historic printings “Chulachomklao the Great of Siam Pāḷi Tipiṭaka” has been well-preserved

both in the temple of the Holy Tooth Relic in Kandy and at the Carolina Rediviva in Uppsala.