Buljo samgyeong (The Three Sutras) (2007)

This book combines three Buddhist sutras: the Bulseol-sasibijanggyeong (Sutra of Forty-Two Sections), said to be the first Buddhist scripture to reach China from India; the Buryugyogyeong (Sutra of the Buddha's Final Teaching), recording the Buddha's last instructions; and the Wisan-gyeongchaek (Admonitions of Master Weishan) by Lingyou, founding patriarch of the Weiyang school of Chinese Chan Buddhism. Immediately after the cover, with no title heading at the start of the volume, comes a preface written in cursive script by the Yuan-dynasty monk Mengshan Deyi in 1286. The three sutras follow in turn, and at the end is a colophon by Yi Saek (pen name Mogeun). Yi Saek's colophon records that in 1384, the tenth year of King U of Goryeo, the monks Jibong, Jido and Gagon had the text reprinted with donations sponsored by a person of the Kim clan. In the space of Yi Saek's colophon is an ink inscription naming a sponsor of the sutra's printing, a Kim family member, which is thought to have been added at a later printing. At the very end of the book is a colophon by the monk Ikdae dated 1286, the same year as Deyi's preface, suggesting that this book is the most faithful surviving reprint of the original Yuan-dynasty edition. This book is judged to be the same edition as two other Treasures held by the Leeum Museum of Art: the Bulseol-sasibijanggyeong hapcheol (Combined Edition of the Sutra of Forty-Two Sections) and the Buljo samgyeong (The Three Sutras), and among the three it is in relatively good condition. Notably, the colophon by Ikdae at the end of the text does not appear in the two previously designated copies, making it a distinctive feature of this book.

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Where it is

Region

Geumjeong-gu, Busan

Designation

Treasure · 보물