The Inscriptions on the murals of Wat Nong Bua

今天的泰国北部地区有一段多事而有趣的历史。要了解今天泰国和泰国北部邻近地区的历史和文化，准确了解泰国北部的历史是必不可少的。对该地区语言和文字的探索和研究是一个研究领域，可以为许多其他历史和社会科学领域提供基础。泰国北部有一个非常全面，保存完好的书面文化。石刻铭文和寺庙壁画上的铭文，以及棕榈叶和当地纸上的手稿（Samut Khoy）是现存最重要的文字来源。从地域、历史和文字来源的角度来看，语料库语言学研究作为语言学的一部分，是一种非常好的、经过验证的方法，可以准确地研究和分析该地区的语言。Wat Nong Bua寺，即“莲花池寺”，在这个项目中涉及的位于南城以北约40公里处。它是由Tai Lue于1862年建造的，Tai Lue自19世纪以来在南谷地区的历史上发挥了重要作用。这座寺庙以其壁画而闻名，其风格与位于南市中心的普敏寺相似。农花村周围的村庄仍然主要由大卢人居住。寺庙本身，其独特的壁画和铭文，是这种文化的一个主要例子。这座寺庙的近200个铭文没有翻译成标准的泰语和英语，也没有科学出版物形式的语言分析和视觉记录，这就是为什么需要如此之大的原因。该项目以英文出版的出版物为在国际研究背景下进一步研究奠定了重要基础。对东南亚中世纪语言和文字的研究远未结束，古高棉语可能是个例外。因此，主要目标是首次出版笏农花壁画的题字，作为绘画的图片记录集，并对所有题字进行科学翻译，从而为进一步开展各种科学研究提供必要的基础。

The region of present-day northern Thailand has had an eventful and interesting history. To understand the history and culture of today's Thailand and the neighbouring regions of northern Thailand, an accurate knowledge of the history of northern Thailand is essential. The exploration and study of language and writing of this region is an area of research which may provide the basis for many other areas of history and social sciences. Northern Thailand has a very comprehensive, very well preserved and documented written culture. Stone inscriptions and inscriptions on temple murals, in addition to manuscripts on palm leaf and on local paper (Samut Khoy) are the most important surviving written sources. Looking at the starting point in terms of region, history and written sources, the corpus linguistic research as part of linguistics is a very good and proven method, to research and analyse the language of this region accurately.The Wat Nong Bua temple, the "Lotus Pond Monastery", dealt with in this project is located about 40 kilometres north of City of Nan. It was built in 1862 by the Tai Lue, who played a prominent role in the history of the Nan Valley region from the 19th century onwards. The temple is famous for its murals, which are similar in style to those of Wat Phumin, located in downtown Nan. The village around Nong Bua is still predominantly inhabited by the Tai Lue. The temple itself, with its distinctive murals and inscriptions, is a prime example of this culture.The lack of translation of these nearly 200 inscriptions of this temple into standard Thai and English, the non-existent linguistic analysis and visual documentation in the form of a scientific publication are reasons why the necessity is so great. The publications resulting from the project published in English lay important foundations for further research in an international research context. Research on medieval languages ​​and scripts of Southeast Asia is far from over, with the possible exception of ancient Khmer.The main goals are therefore to publish the inscriptions of the murals of Wat Nong Bua for the first time as a pictorial documented collection of the paintings together with the scientific translation of all inscriptions and thus to provide an essential basis for further research in various sciences.