Munsusaribosal choesangseung musaenggyegyeong

The Munsusaribosal choesangseung musaenggyegyeong is a sutra recording the teachings that Sakyamuni Buddha delivered beneath the Bodhi tree. When the eminent Indian monk Jigong, who had become a naturalised subject of the Yuan dynasty, took part in a ritual assembly for the Bodhisattva Beopgi at Geumgangsan Mountain in Goryeo, King Chungsuk of Goryeo is said to have asked him to preach, whereupon Jigong brought out this text and delivered his sermon from it. It was carved onto woodblocks and printed on mulberry paper, with three fascicles bound together as a single book measuring 26.1 cm in height and 19.2 cm in width. A colophon written by Yi Saek in 1386, the twelfth year of King U of Goryeo, shows that this edition was a Goryeo reprint of a text first published in 1353 by Gang Geumgang. At that time, U-gong of Yean had attempted to have it transcribed and re-carved but did not complete the work; it was finally finished and issued in the fifth month of 1386 through fundraising by Seongamsa Temple. This is the only known copy of a text whose title does not appear in any of the various Buddhist canon catalogues preserved in Korea, China or Japan, and it is highly valued as source material for the study of Buddhist doctrine.

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Where it is

Region

Yangsan, Gyeongnam

Designation

Treasure · 보물