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128
Feb. '82
J.S. Edgren, Carmel
$55

Ta po-jo po-lo-mi-to ching.
Ch. 81 Korean edition of Buddhist sutra.
Woodblocks carved 1237 at Harinsa Temple, slightly
later printing from original blocks, + folio matted.
Format: 6 columns of 14 characters to the page +23 (24 5)
colums to the sheet (each shut consisting of 4 pages 2
being folded 3 times.) (Scroll)
Border: single, 50.5x23cm. 81= (?) -

The Second Korea Edition (1236-51)
On the rt margin of each sheet were printed the title of the
text, the chapter number, the sheet number, + the character
from the "Thousand Character Classic" designating the number of
the wrapper. In this ed. the word "shut" was rendered by
the character chang (Japanese, cho, "stretch") The art
consisted 1524 works 6558 chusn, divided into 628
wrappers.
Sheet - Chang (?)
(cho)

p. 18 - Printed on yellow paper, ying-husng chih, on paper theated with
yellow dye from the from the inner bark of Phellodandron amurense
-each sheet was glued to the (overlapping) preceding sheet
to form a chusn or scroll
edition width of sheet height of text
N Sung ca 52 cm 22.4cm
Korean B ca 56.8cm -
Sou-ch'i 56cm ca 25cm
Diamond Sutra - Ska. Mahaprajnaparamita - sutra
a work in 600 chapters on the nature of projna or wisdom; one
of the most important metaphysical texts of early Mahayana
Buddhism