Daebanggwangbulhwaeomgyeong Jeongwonbon Gwon8

Basic information

Designation

Treasure No.1846

Category

Books & Records

Era

11세기 추정

Designated year

2014

Location

관악구, 서울특별시— 서울특별시 관악구 남부순환로152길 53 (신림동, 호림박물관)

Coordinates

37.498300, 127.029500Museum-based location

This book, the eighth volume of the Avatamsaka Sutra in the Zhenyuan Version, contains “The Practices and Vows of Samantabhadra Bodhisattva” selected from the Gandavyuha Sutra, which was translated by a Tang monk named Prajna (795-798) from the Avatamsaka Sutra in sixty fascicles of Jin version and eighty fascicles of Zhou version. The technique used to carve the woodblocks with which it was printed shows its superiority to other editions of the same sutra. The book is also widely regarded as a rare, valuable material for bibliographical studies of Buddhist scriptures and woodblock printing in Goryeo due to, among other things, the page format in which each line of text consists of 26 lines and 17 characters.

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