Śri Lalitvistaranāma Mahāyāna Sutra

The manuscript is started to write on NS 802 (1681) and completed in one year. It has the wooden cover and seems offered sacred thread to the scripture. The Lalitavistara Sūtra is a major Mahāyāna Buddhist biography of the Buddha. The extant Sanskrit text contains 27 Parivartas, narrating the Bodhisattva’s descent from Tuṣita, miraculous birth, renunciation, enlightenment, defeat of Māra, and first sermon at Sarnath, emphasizing the Buddha’s divine qualities and compassionate missionThis tradition of worshiping Scripture as deities is common practice among Newar Buddhist of Nepal. The scibe has a beautiful handwriting. King Sri 3 Nivas Malla deva Thakur is mentioned in its Colophone along with his Queen and Prince.