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 evergreenshrubs 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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