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World’s heaviest book

World’s heaviest book

The 1,460 stone pages, 150 x 110 cm (5 x 3.5 ft) each, contain the entire Pāli Canon of Theravada Buddhist scriptures, the Tripiṭaka. Placed on display at the Kuthodaw Pagoda in Mandalay, Myanmar, the entire collection is known simply as ‘the world’s largest book’.