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The Invention of Printing in China + its Spread Westward
Thomas F. Carter 2nd ed. (1955) 094.151 C325 Stack
Benden Ref Z186 C5C3
bloack printing - material used is usually pear or jujube
wood - no press whatever is used in their printing -
the thin paper recieves the impression with a gentle
contact - the paper, being so thin + transparent is
printed on one side only. (European - bookprinting on both
sides of the paper with the comparatively heavy indentations made from metal types)
Zang - Tripitaka - the Sanskrit name for the Buddhist canonical
literature - means 3 baskets or repositories
-first written down in the Pali language shortly after 43 BC
in Ceylon.
I. Pali Tripitaka
1)Vinaya pitaka - containing the rules (discipline
2) Sutta " - containing the parables + sermona
(discoures) of Buddah (died c. 483 B.C.) The Sutters
are the most beautiful + famous of Buddhist writings
3) Abhidharma pitaka - containing the doctrine (metaphysics)
II. Sanskrit Tripitaka.

Diamond Sutra - earliest extant pritned book (868) - the
favorite book with printers of China, Japan + Central Asia.

Sui 581-618
Tang 618-907
Five Dyasties - + Tan Kingdoms 907-979
Sung (?) 960-1279
Liao 916-1125
Western Asia 1038-1227
Kin 1115-1234
Yuan 1271-1368
Ming 1368-1644
Ching 1644-1911
Chinese Landscape Woodcuts 1968 Max Loche Art Lib. Stanford NE 1)83 L6
Sutra - thread, string of rules, aphorisms - one of the [crossed out] Buddhist [end crossed out]
namative parts of the Buddhist canonical literature, especially the
dialogues of the Budda.