Works and articles
Bibliography (English and French)
Aroonrut Wichienkeeo
2000 – “Lawa (Lua): A Study from Palm-Leaf Manuscripts and Stone Inscriptions”, in Dynamics of Ethnic Cultures Across National Boundaries in Southwestern China and Mainland Southeast Asia: Relations, Societies and Languages, Hayashi Yukio et Yang Guangyuan (eds.) Chiang Mai, Ming Muang Printing House, pp. 122-138.
Berkwitz, Stephen C.
2004 – Buddhist History in the Vernacular : The Power of the Past in Late Medieval Sri Lanka, Leiden and Boston, Brill.
2007 – The History of the Buddha’s Relic Shrine : A Translation of the Sinhala Thūpavaṃsa, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Berkwitz, Stephen C., Juliane Schober & Claudia Brown (Eds.)
2009 – Buddhist Manuscript Cultures, London and New York, Routledge.
Bizot, François
1993 – Le bouddhisme des Thaïs, Bangkok, Éditions des Cahiers de France (contains a translation of Ghambhirabhikkhu, Wat Fa Ham manuscript, Chiang Mai pp. 39-43).
Bizot, François & François Lagirarde
1996 - La pureté par les mots, collection Textes bouddhiques du Laos, Paris et Chiang Mai, EFEO.
Brereton, Bonnie
1993 – “Some Comments on a Northern Phra Malai Text Dated C.S. 878 (A.D. 1516)”, Journal of the Siam Society 81-1, pp. 141-145.
Chandler David P.
1975 – “The duties of the corps of royal scribes : an undated Khmer manuscript from the colonial era”, Journal of the Siam Society, 63-2, pp. 343-348.
Cœdès, George
1915 – « Note sur les ouvrages pâlis composés en pays thaï », Bulletin de l’École française d’Extrême-Orient, XV, 3, pp. 39-46.
1918 – “Études cambodgiennes. XVI. — Essai de classification des documents historiques cambodgiens conservés à la bibliothèque de l’École française d’Extrême-Orient”, Bulletin de l’École française d’Extrême-Orient, 18, 9, réédition 1989, Articles sur le Pays khmer 1, Paris, EFEO, pp. 67-80.
1924a – Recueil des inscriptions du Siam, Première partie : inscriptions de Sukhodaya, Bangkok, Bangkok Times Press.
1924b – The Vajirañāṇa National Library of Siam, Bangkok, Bangkok Times Press.
1925 – “Documents sur l'histoire politique et religieuse du Laos occidental”, Bulletin de l’École française d’Extrême-Orient, 25, pp.1-200.
1966 – Catalogue des manuscrits en pāli, laotien et siamois provenant de la Thaïlande, Bibliothèque Royale, Copenhague.
Croizier, Marquis E. de,
1885 – Notice des manuscrits siamois de la Bibliothèque nationale, Paris.
Damrong Rajanubhab, Prince
1973 – Monuments of the Buddha in Siam, Monograph No. II revised, transl. by Sulak Sivaraksa and A.B. Griswold with footnotes by Prince Subhadradis Diskul and A.B. Griswold, Bangkok, The Siam Society (1st ed. 1962 under the title A History of Buddhists Monuments in Siam).
Davis, Richard B.
1970 – A Northern Thai Reader, Bangkok, The Siam Society.
1976 – “The Northern Thai Calendar and its Uses”, Anthropos, 71, pp. 3-32.
1984 – Muang Metaphysics : A study of Northern Thai myth and ritual, Bangkok, Pandora.
Duverdier, Gérald
1980 – “La transmission de l’imprimerie en Thaïlande : du catéchisme de 1796 aux impressions bouddhiques sur feuilles de latanier”, Bulletin de l’École française d’Extrême-Orient, 68, pp. 209-259.
Eade J. Chris ,
1995 – The Calendrical systems of Mainland South-East Asia, Leiden, Brill.
Ferguson, John P. & Shalardchai Ramitanondh
1976 – “Monks and Hierarchy in Northern Thailand”, Journal of the Siam Society, 64 part 1, pp. 104-150.
Finot, Louis
1917 – « Recherches sur la littérature laotienne », Bulletin de l’École française d’Extrême-Orient, 17, pp. 1-221.
Ginsburg, Henry
2000 – Thai art and culture: historic manuscripts from Western collections. London, The British Library.
Grabowsky, Volker
1999a – “Forced Resettlement Campaigns in Northern Thailand during the Early Bangkok Period”, Journal of the Siam Society, 87 part 1 & 2, pp. 45–86
1999b – “Introduction to the History of Müang Sing (Laos)”, Bulletin de l’École française d’Extrême-Orient, 86, pp. 233-293
2004 – “The Northern Tai Polity of Lan Na (Babai-Dadian) Between the Late 13th to Mid-16th Centuries: Internal Dynamics and Relations with Her Neighbours”, ARI Working Paper, No.17, January 2004, www.ari.nus.edu.sg/pub/wps.htm.
2008 – “The Tai Polities in the Upper Mekong and Their Tributary Relationships with China and Burma ”, Aséanie 21, pp. 11-63.
Grabowsky, Volker (ed.)
1995 – Regions and National Integration in Thailand 1892–1992, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag.
Grabowsky, Volker & Renoo Wichasin
2008 – Chronicles of Chiang Khaeng: A Tai Lü Principality of the Upper Mekong, Honolulu, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Hawai‘i.
Hinüber, Oskar von
1982 – “The Tittira-Jātaka and the Extended Mahāvaṃsa”, Journal of the Siam Society, 70, pp. 71-75.
1983 – “Pāli Manuscripts of Canonical Texts from North Thailand. A Preliminary Report”, Journal of the Siam Society, 71, pp. 75-88.
1987a – “ The Pāli Manuscripts Kept at the Siam Society, Bangkok. A Short Catalogue”, Journal of the Siam Society, 75, pp. 9-74.
1987b – “The oldest dated manuscript of the Milindapañha”, Journal of the Pali Text Society, 11, pp. 111-118.
1988 – “An additional note on the oldest dated manuscript of the Milindapañha”, Journal of the Pali Text Society , 12, pp. 173-174.
1990 – ”On Some Colophons of Old Lānnā Pāli Manuscripts”, Proceedings of the IVth International Conference on Thai Studies, Kunming, vol IV, pp. 56-77.
1994 – “Traces of Khmer influence in Northern Thai Pāli Manuscripts”, Recherches nouvelles sur le Cambodge, Études Thématiques I, Paris, EFEO, pp. 97-100.
1996 - « Chips from Buddhist Workshops : Scribes and Manuscripts from Northern Thailand », Journal of the Pali Text Society XXII, pp. 35-57.
2000 – Lān2 Nā as a Centre of Pāli Literature During the Late 15th Century”, Journal of the Pali Text Society, 26, pp. 119-137.
2013 – Die Pali-Handschriften des Klosters Lai Hin bei Lampang in Nord-Thailand, Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden.
Hundius, Harald
1990a - « The colophons of thirty Pāli manuscripts from Northern Thailand », Journal of the Pali Text Society 14, pp. 1-173
1990b - Phonologie und Schrift des Nordthai, Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner.
2008 – “The preservation of Lao manuscripts”, Recherches nouvelles sur le Laos, Y. Goudineau and Michel Lorrillard (eds.), EFEO Études thématique 18, Vientiane-Paris, pp. 361-368.
Hutchinson, E. W.
1935 – “ Sacred Images in Chiengmai”, Journal of the Siam Society, 28.2, pp.115-142. Contains a translation of Tamnan Phra Sila in English based on a palm-leaf manuscript. Reprinted in The Siam Society Fiftieth Anniversary Commemorative Publication, Selected articles from The Siam Society Journal volume II, 1959-1953, Bangkok 1954, pp. 55-73.
1951 – “ The Seven Spires : A Sanctuary of the Sacred Fig Tree at Chiengmai”, Journal of the Siam Society, 39.1, pp. 1-68 . Contains a translation of Tamnan Wat Chet Yot in modern Thai and in English based on a palm-leaf manuscript apparently lost and without other copies
Ishii, Yoneo
1986 - Sangha State and Society : Thai Buddhism in History, Honolulu, the University of Hawaii Press.
Jayawickrama, N. A.
1968 – The Sheaf of Garlands of the Epochs of the Conqueror, a Translation of Jinakālamalīpakaraṇaṃ of Ratanapaññq Thera of Thailand with an introductory essay by Dr. Saeng Manavidura, London, the Pali Text Society.
Keyes, Charles F.
1970 – “New Evidence on Northern Thai Frontier History”, in Memoriam Phya Anuman Rajadhon, Tej Bunnag and Michael Smithies (eds), Bangkok, The Siam Society, pp. 221-250.
1975 – “Buddhist Pilgrimage Centers and the Twelve-Year Cycle: Northern Thai Moral Orders in Space and Time”, History of Religions, 15-1, pp. 71-89.
Lafont, Pierre-Bernard
1964 – “Inventaire des manuscrits des pagodes du Laos”, Bulletin de l’École française d’Extrême-Orient, 52, pp. 429-445.
Lagirarde, François
1996 – “Les manuscrits en thaï du Nord de la Siam Society”, Journal of the Siam Society, 84-1, p.91-115.
2006 – “Notes on Field Digitization and Cataloging of Palm Leaf Manuscripts in the Northern-Thai Context ” in Enriching the Past: Preservation, Conservation and Study of Myanmar Manuscripts, Teruko Saito and U Thaw Kaung (editors), the Centre for Documentation and Area-Transcultural Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, pp. 152-162.
2007 [2010] – “Temps et lieux d'histoires bouddhiques : à propos de quelques « chroniques » inédites du Lanna”, Bulletin de l’École française d’Extrême-Orient, 94, pp. 59-94.
2012 – “Narratives as Ritual Histories: the Case of the Northern-Thai Buddhist Chronicles,” in Buddhist Narratives in Asia and Beyond, Peter Skilling and Justin McDaniel (eds.), Bangkok, Institute of Thai Studies, Chulalongkorn University, vol. one, pp. 83-94.
2014 - “Les ho tham du Lanna, bibliothèques des monastères bouddhiques du Nord de la Thaïlande”, Arts Asiatiques, 69, pp.35-50.
2015 - "Thailand: Historiography", Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism, tome 1, Leiden, Brii, pp. 792-799.
2017 - "Facts and Figures about the Buddhist Historiography of Lanna, Its Material Culture, and Its Production." In Imagination and Narrative: Lexical and Cultural Translation in Buddhist Asia,
Lagirarde, François , Phongsathon Buakhampan & Wisitthisak Sattaphan
2011 – “Étude d’épigraphie du Nord de la Thaïlande : inscriptions sur des Buddhas du Wat Mueang Mo à Phrae”, Aséanie, 27, pp. 137-160.
Law, Bimala Churn
1947 – On the Chronicles of Ceylon, Calcutta. Réimpression 1987, New Delhi, Sri Satguru Publications.
Le Bas, Dominique
1987 – Les armoires et les coffres à manuscrits de Thaïlande, Thèse pour le doctorat de 3e cycle sous la direction de Madeleine Giteau, Paris, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris.
Legge, John D.
1992 (1999) – “The Writing of Southeast Asian History”, in The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, Nicholas Tarling (ed.), volume one from early times to c. 1500, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-50.
Liew-Herres, Foon Ming & Volker Grabowsky (in collaboration with Aroonrut Wichienkeeo)
2008 – Lan Na in Chinese Historiography : Sino-Tai Relations as Reflected in the Yuan an Ming Sources (13th to 17th Centuries, Bangkok, Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University.
Liew-Herres, Foon Ming, Volker Grabowsky & Renoo Wichasin
2012 – Chronicle of Sipsòng Panna: History and Society of a Tai Lü Kingdom, Twelfth to Twentieth Century, Chiang Mai, Mekong Press.
Lingat, Robert
1933 – “History of Wat Pavaraniveça”, Journal of the Siam Society, 26, pp.73-102.
McDaniel, Justin
2002 – “The Curricular Canon in Northern Thailand and Laos”, Manusya Journal of Thai Language and Literature, Special Issue, pp. 20-59.
2003 – “Invoking the Source: Nissaya Manuscripts, Pedagogy, and Sermon-Making in Northern Thailand and Laos", Ph.D. diss. Harvard University.
2008 - Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words, Seattle and London, University of Washington Press.
2009 – “Two Buddhist Librarians : The proximate mechanisms of Northern Thai Buddhist History”, Buddhist Manuscript Cultures, knowledge, ritual and art, Berkwitz S.C. , Shober J., Brown C. (eds.) , Routledge London-NewYork, pp. 124-139.
Muzerelle, Denis
1985 – Vocabulaire codicologique : répertoire méthodique des termes français relatifs aux manuscrits, avec leurs équivalents en anglais, italien, espagnol, Paris, Éditions CEMI, online edition: http://vocabulaire.irht.cnrs.fr/pages/vocab2.htm
Notton, Camille
1926 — Annales du Siam: première partie, chroniques de Suvaṇṇa Khamdëng Suvaṇṇa K'ôm Khăm, Siṅhanavati, Paris, Charles Lavauzelle.
1930 – Annales du Siam: 2e volume , chronique de La:p'un, histoire de la Dynastie Chamt'evi, Paris, Charles Lavauzelle.
1932 – Annales du Siam: 3e volume, Chronique de Xieng Mai, Paris, Paul Geuthner.
1933a – The Chronicle of the Emerald Buddha, Bangkok, Bangkok Times Press (2nd ed.).
1933b – P’ra Buddha Sihiṅga, Bangkok, Bangkok Times Press.
1936 – P’rǎ Setaṁgamaṇī, Bangkok, Bangkok Times Press.
Pattaratorn Chirapravati
2009 – “From text to image: copying as Buddhist practice in late 14th century Sukhothai”, Buddhist Manuscript Cultures, knowledge, ritual and art, Berkwitz S.C., Schober J., Brown C., (eds.), Routledge London and New York, pp. 172-188.
Penth, Hans
1977 – “Historical notes on the region west of Chiang Mai”, Journal of the Siam Society, 65 part 2, p. 179-188.
1989 – “On the History of Chiang Rai”, Journal of the Siam Society, 77 part 1, p. 11-28.
1993 [2536] – History of Phra Thāt Dòi Tung, Mae Fah Luang Foundation and SRI, Bangkok and Chiang Rai.
1994a – A brief history of Lān Nā : civilizations of North Thailand, Chiang Mai, Silkworm Books.
1994b – Jinakālamālī Index, Oxford et Chiang Mai, the Pali Text Society et Silkworms Books.
2540 [1997]– “Literature on the History of Local Buddhism”, in Wanakam Phutthasasana nai Lanna, Phanphen Krueathai (ed.), Chiang Mai, Social Research Institute, Chiang Mai University, pp. 61-88
1997 – “Buddhist Literature of Lān Nā on the History of Lān Nā’s Buddhism”, Journal of the Pali Text Society, 23, pp. 43-81.
Prakong Nimmanahaeminda
2010 – “Tamnan Phra Chao Liap Loke (The Legend of the Lord Buddha’s Travels Around the World) : Lan Na Monastic Wisdom”, in Buddhist Narratives in Asia and Beyond, Peter Skilling and Justin McDaniel (eds.), Bangkok, Institute of Thai Studies, Chulalongkorn University, vol. two, pp. 109-119.
Rujaya Abhakorn
1997 – “Towards A Collective Memory of Mainland Southeast Asia Field Preservation of Traditional Manuscripts in Thailand, Laos and Myanmar”, in International Federation of Library Associations Journal, Vol. 23, 2, http://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla62/62-abhr.htm
Rhum, Michael R.
1994 – The Ancestral Lords: Gender, Descent and Spirits in a Northern Thai Village, DeKalb, Northern Illinois University, Center for Southeast Studies.
Sa-nguan Chotisukharat
1971 – “Supernatural beliefs and practices in Chiengmai”, Journal of the Siam Society, 59, part 1, pp. 211-231.
Sao Sāimöng
1981 – “Cuḷa Sakarāja and the Sixty Cyclical year names”, Journal of the Siam Society, 69, pp. 4-12.
Sao Sāimöng Mangrāi
1981 – The Pāḍaeng Chronicle and the Jengtung State Chronicle Translated, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia Number 19.
Sarassawadee Ongsakul
2005 – History of Lan Na, Chiang Mai, Silkworm Books.
Silpa Birasri (C. Feroci)
1960 – “Notes on a Library (Ho Trai) of the Ayudhya period”, The lacquer Pavillion at Suan Pakkad Palace, publ. by Princess Chumbhot of Nagara Svarga on the occasion of the Royal Cremation of H.R.H Prince Chumbot of Nagara Svarga at Wat Benchamabophitr on the 23rd of December 1959, Bangkok, pp. 11-22.
Sithu Gamani Thingyan
2003 – Zimme Yazawin (Chronicle of Chiang Mai), Edited by Tun Aung Chain, Yangon, Universities Historical Research Centre (contains short versions of the Emerald Buddha and Sandalwood Buddha image stories).
Skilling, Peter & Santi Pakdeekham
2002 – Pāli Literature Transmitted in Central Siam, Materials for the Study of the Tripiṭaka volume 1, Bangkok, Fragile Palm Leaves Foundation.
2004 – Pāli and Vernacular Literature Transmitted in Central and Northern Siam, Materials for the Study of the Tripiṭaka, Volume 2, Bangkok, Fragile Palm Leaves Foundation.
Sommai Premchit
1980 – “Palm Leaf Manuscripts and traditional Sermon”, in Buddhism in Northern Thailand, proceedings of the 13th Conference of the World Fellowship of Buddhists, Chiang Mai 24-29 November 1980, pp. 81-86.
Sommai Premchit & Amphay Doré
1992 – The Lan Na Twelve-Month Traditions, Chiang Mai, The Toyota Foundation.
Sommai Premchit & Donald K. Swearer
1977 – “A translation of Tamnān Mūlasāsanā Wat Pā Daeng : the chronicle of the founding of Buddhism of the Wat Pādaeng tradition”, Journal of the Siam Society, 65 part 2, pp.73-110
Strong, John S.
1998 – “Les reliques des cheveux du Bouddha au Shwe Dagon de Rangoon”, Aséanie, 2, pp. 79-107.
2004 – Relics of the Buddha. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press.
Swearer, Donald K.
1974 – “Myth, legend and history in the northern Thai Chronicles”, Journal of the Siam Society, 62 part 1, pp. 67-88.
1976 – “The Role of the Layman Extraordinaire in Northern Thai Buddhism”, Journal of the Siam Society, 64 part 1, pp. 151-168.
2540 [1997] – “Signs of the Buddha in Northern Thai Chronicles”, in Wanakam Phutthasasana nai Lanna, Phanphen Krueathai (ed.), Chiang Mai, Social Research Institute, Chiang Mai University, pp.278-292
2004a – Becoming the Buddha : the Ritual of Image Consecration in Thailand, Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press.
2004b – “Signs of the Buddha in Northern Thai Chronicles”, in Embodying the Dhamma: Buddhist Relic Veneration in Asia, David Germano and Kevin Trainor (eds.), Albany, State University of New York Press, pp. 145-162.
2006 – “Presencing the Buddha in Northern Thailand : Perspectives from Ritual and Narrative”, in Buddhist Legacies in Mainland Southeast Asia : Mentalities, Interpretations and Practices, François Lagirarde & Paritta Chalermpow Koanantakool (eds.), Paris and Bangkok, École française d’Extrême-Orient and Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre, pp. 277-284.
Swearer, Donald K. & Sommai Premchit
1977 – “A translation of Tamnān Mūlasāsanā Wat Pā Daeng: the chronicle of the founding of Buddhism of the Wat Pādaeng tradition”, Journal of the Siam Society, 65 part 2, pp. 73-110.
1978 – “The Relationship Between the Religious and Political Orders in Northern Thailand (14th-16th Centuries)”, in Religion and Legitimation of Power in Thailand, Laos and Burma, Bardwell L. Smith (ed.), Chambersburg Pa., Anima Books, pp.20-33.
1998 – The Legend of Queen Cāma : Bodhiraṃsi’s Cāmadevivaṃsa, a Translation and Commentary, Albany, Suny Series in Buddhist Studies, State University of New York.
Swearer, Donald, Sommai Premchit & Phaithoon Dokbuakaew.
2004 – Sacred Mountains of Northern Thailand and their Legends. Chiang Mai: Silkworms Books.
Tanabe, Shigeharu
2000 – “Autochthony and the Inthakin Cult of Chiang Mai”, Civility and Savagery: Social Identity in Tai States, Andrew Turton (ed.), Richmond, Surrey, Curzon Press, pp. 294-318.
Terwiel, Barend Jan
1978 – “The origin and meaning of the Thai ‘City Pillar”, Journal of the Siam Society, 66 part 2, pp. 159-171.
2003 – Shan Manuscripts part I, compiled and edited by Barend Jan Terwiel with the assistance of Chaichuen Khamdaengyodtai, (VOHD) 39, 1, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag.
The World Fellowship of Buddhists
1980 – Buddhism in Northern Thailand, proceedings of the The 13th Conference of the World Fellowship of Buddhists, Chiang Mai 24-29 November 1980.
Thida Saraya (Dhida Saraya)
1982 – Tamnan & Tamnan History: A Study of Local History, Bangkok, The Office of the National Culture Commission.
Veidlinger, Daniel M.
2006 – Spreading the Dhamma: Writing, Orality, and Textual Transmission in Buddhist Northern Thailand, Honolulu, University of Hawai‘i Press.
Vickery, Michael
1976 – “The Lion Prince and Related Remarks on Northern History : Manit Vallibhotama, tāṃnān siṅhanavatikumāra, chabăp sòp gan”, Journal of the Siam Society 64 part 1, pp. 326-377.
2003 – “Two Historical Records of the Kingdom of Vientiane ”, E. Goscha & S. Ivarsson (eds.), Contesting Visions of the Lao Past : Lao Historiography at the Crossroads, Copenhague and Chiang Mai, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies and Silkworm Books, pp. 3-35.
Wijeyewardene, Gehan
1986 – Place and Emotion in Northern Thai Ritual Behaviour, Bangkok, Pandora.
Winai Pongsripian
1983 – Traditional Thai Historiography and its Nineteenth-Century Decline. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Bristol.
Woodward, Hiram W., Jr.
1977 – “Two shrine chronicle translations” Journal of the Siam Society, 65 part 2, pp. 199-205.
Wyatt, David K.
1966 – The Nan Chronicle, Ithaca, New York, Cornell University.
1976 – “ Chronicle Traditions in Thai Historiography ”, C.D. Cowan et O.W. Wolters (eds.) Southeast Asian History and Historiography, Essays Presented to D. G. E. Hall, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, pp. 107-122.
1993 – “ The Case for the Northern Thai Chronicles ”, Paper for the Fifth International Conference on Thai Studies, London, July 1993, 15 pages.
1994 – The Nan Chronicle, Studies on Southeast Asia No. 16, Ithaca, NewYork, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University.
1997 – “ History and Directionality in the Early Nineteenth-Century Tai World ”, A. Reid (ed.) The Last Stand of Asian Autonomies : Responses to Modernity in the Diverse States of Southeast Asia and Korea, 1750-1900, Basingstoke, Macmillan, pp.425-443.
Wyatt, David. K. & Dian Murray
1976 – “King Mangrai and Chiang Rung”, Journal of the Siam Society 64 part 1, p. 378-381.
Wyatt, David. K. & Aroonrut Wichienkeeo
1995 – The Chiang Mai Chronicle, Chiang Mai, Silkworm Books.