Hidden GemsGilded lacquer glows against black script, each angular Pali character pressed into the surface with precision. These manuscripts transformed ritual into spectacle—celestial beings and rain-serpents once framed the sacred words beyond this folio.
What details in the script’s rhythm suggest movement, as if the letters themselves might lift from the page?
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