Films

This video explains in brief the history, location, and background of the U Pho Thi library and includes a behind-the-scenes look at the work that goes into digitizing the library’s manuscripts. In addition, shown towards the end of the video are a few of the rare and beautiful manuscripts and parabaiks that may be of interest to scholars.

Part 1 shows the location of the manuscripts and an explanation in Burmese (English subtitles) about the history, purpose and success of the Trust. In Japanese (no subtitles) there is a brief description on how the manuscripts are housed and the way they are wrapped and labeled. At the end of the video, and continued in Part 2 in Burmese (with English subtitles) there is an explanation on how the manuscripts are wrapped, numbered, constructed, how they were copied by scribes, and at the end a look at how they are being digitized.