Tripitaka Koreana woodblocks

Period

1251

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The Tripiṭaka Koreana refers to a Korean collection of Tripiṭaka scriptures carved onto 81,352 wooden printing blocks in the 13th century of the Goryeo period. They are currently located at the Buddhist temple Haeinsa, in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. It is the oldest intact version of the Chinese Buddhist canon, the shared canonical collection of East Asian Buddhism written in Buddhist Chinese. It contains 1,496 titles divided into 6,568 books, spanning 81,258 pages, for a total 52,330,152 characters. It is often called the Palman Daejanggyeong due to the number of the printing plates that comprise it.

Sources: Wikipedia — Tripitaka Koreana · CC BY-SA 4.0

Earlier and later events nearby

1. AD 918Founding of Goryeo
2. 1019Battle of Gwiju
3. 1231–1270Mongol invasions of Korea
4. 1251Tripitaka Koreana woodblocksThis page
5. 1251Tripitaka Koreana
6. 1377Jikji
7. 1392Founding of Joseon

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