6 X 8" ECO RENEWABLE HARD BOUND NEW NATURAL LOKTA PAPER BUDDHIST BUDDHA JOURNAL



  • measures 6 by 8 inches with approximately 50 pages
  • hand made lokta paper is made from the fast growing & renewable Daphne shrub
  • Lokta bushes proliferate in open clusters or colonies on the southern slopes of Nepal's Himalayan forests between 1,600 and 4,000 m
  • Lokta paper's durability and resistance to tearing, humidity, insects and mildew have traditionally made lokta paper the preferred choice for the recording of official government records (see photo on right) and sacred religious texts
  • made the same way for thousands of years
  • this journal shows a brocade image of the Buddha on the front cover
  • Nepalese handmade lokta paper is made from the fibrous inner bark of high elevation evergreen shrubs primarily from two species of Daphne shrubs
  • The earliest surviving lokta paper document appears in Nepal's National Archives in Kathmandu in the form of the sacred Buddhist text, the Karanya Buha Sutra. The Karanya Buha Sutra was written in Lichchhavi script and block printed on lokta paper and is estimated to be between 1,000 and 1,900 years old

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