Seokbo sangjeol (Episodes from the Life of Sakyamuni Buddha), Volume 11

Seokbo sangjeol is a book recording the life of Sakyamuni Buddha and his family, translated into Hangeul; it was compiled at the command of King Sejong by Prince Suyang, later King Sejo, with the help of Kim Su-on and others, in 1446, the 28th year of King Sejong's reign, to pray for the repose of Queen Soheon after her death. Seokbo sangjeol Volume 11 is a bokgakbon, a re-carved edition produced by copying an earlier movable-type printing exactly onto new woodblocks. Regarding the re-carving, in 1495, the first year of King Yeonsangun's reign, various Buddhist texts were published using naetanggeum (funds for the king's personal use) to pray for the repose of King Seongjong; a colophon by Hakjo appended to Seonjong yeonggajip and to the eonhae translation of the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra records that twenty copies of Seokbo sangjeol were among them, leading to the conjecture that this edition may have been produced in that year. However, given the coarse carving of the characters, the many donors' names engraved in the margins outside the type block, and the quality of the paper, there are too many problems to conclude definitively that this is the Yeonsangun-era edition, and it seems more likely to be a later re-carving made at some temple. It was published as a facsimile edition by the Daegu Language and Literature Society in 1959.

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