SDM02-20010202 - Contents of Minidisc recorded in several Aiton villages, April 2001

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This item contains a number of recordings from a single minidisc. The detailed metadata contains the following fields separated by a pipe |. Recording Name|Data type|Origination Date|Place of Recording|Consultant(s)|Language Content|Item Description|Other Information. Metadata for each recording is separated by a % sign from the next recording. % SDM02-20010202-001 | Primary Text | 4/2001 | Ban Nam Thum | Sa Cham | Aiton | Story of the Buddha. At first SM suggests that he and Sa Cham have a discussion, 1’05” he commences telling a story of a former life of the Buddha; told when he was in the Tusita heaven. At that time his parents were very poor. This story goes to the birth of the former Buddha and 1’55” the dream of his father before he was born. | % SDM02-20010202-002 | Primary Text | 4/2001 | Ban Nam Thum | Sa Cham | Aiton | discussion with Sa Cham. SM asks his age, given at about 80, born in about 1920. 0’25” SM asks his father’s name, Chau Pim¹. 1’25” His father had been a monk and became a Luthak. He says that his father had suffered a good deal in his life, because he had no great knowledge. | % SDM02-20010202-003 | Primary Text | 4/2001 | Ban Nam Thum | Sa Cham | Aiton | Sa Cham talking about himself and some words. He explains that he was very poor, and his life was difficult. | % SDM02-20010202-004 | Primary Text | 4/2001 | Ban Nam Thum | Bidya Thoumoung | Aiton | Some word variations % khaam² / khwaam² ‘word’ % mu² yaam²/ʒaam² nan³ ‘then’ | % SDM02-20010202-005 | Primary Text | 4/2001 | Ban Nam Thum | Sa Cham | Aiton | Story of the Buddha in former times. He makes the point that this story is not the same as it appears in books. 0’30” beginning of the story, how in that time the Buddha was born, his parents were dead and he was suffering from difficulties as a small boy, he was begging. 1’15” Other people took pity on him, and he went to the king so that he could get some food. % (continued as SDM02-20010203-001) | % . Language as given: Aiton