Yenyeom mita doryang chambeop (Contrition in the Name of Amitabha Buddha), Volumes 6-10 (1996)

The Yenyeom mita doryang chambeop (Contrition in the Name of Amitabha Buddha) records the procedures of a Buddhist ritual in which the faithful worship Amitabha Buddha with utmost devotion, repent their sins and pray for rebirth in the Pure Land. It is a woodblock print, with Volumes 6 to 10 bound together as a single book. As it carries no publication record, the exact date cannot be determined, but a comparison with the Treasure-designated Yenyeom mita doryang chambeop, Volumes 1–5 and 6–10, shows an identical format, suggesting that both were printed from the same woodblocks. A colophon by Kim Su-on at the end of the book reveals that it was published in 1474, the fifth year of King Seongjong, at the order of Grand Queen Dowager Jaseong, consort of King Sejo, to pray for the repose of former kings and queens, and that the undertaking mobilised the royal court, eminent monks and the leading craftsmen of the time. A distinctive feature of this book is that the names of the woodblock carvers are recorded in it. A few other surviving books likewise record the carvers' names, and their colophons (postscripts explaining the circumstances of publication) show that the original 1474 edition was faithfully reproduced at Haeinsa Temple in 1503, the ninth year of King Yeonsangun. As a Buddhist scripture reprinted at Haeinsa Temple in the early sixteenth century, its carving and printing are in no way inferior to those of the original edition. The names of the carvers provide a basis for dating other books of the period, making this an important resource for bibliographical research and the study of Buddhist cultural history.

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Where it is

Region

Gimcheon, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Treasure · 보물