Surangama Sutra vol. 2, 10

The Surangama Sutra is often abbreviated as the "Great Buddha's Crown Surangama Sutra" or simply the "Surangama Sutra," and teaches that the Buddha's words should not merely be understood intellectually but personally experienced and realised. The sutra comprises ten volumes in total, and even today some Seon (Zen) monasteries in Korea make it a daily practice to recite the Surangama Dharani contained in Volume 7. Various editions of the Surangama Sutra survive, including a small-format Goryeo-period edition and, from the early Joseon period, large-format editions, movable-type editions, and an eonhae (vernacular translation with Korean glosses) edition published by the Directorate for the Publication of Buddhist Scriptures. Among these, the copy held by the Academy of Korean Studies corresponds to two volumes, Volume 2 and Volume 10, of a ten-volume set printed from woodblocks by the Directorate for the Publication of Buddhist Scriptures in 1462, the eighth year of King Sejo. In parts of the text, mistaken characters have been cut out and corrected characters pasted onto the reverse side, a correction found mainly at the Korean syllable "a" in the transliteration of Ananda's name. The characters are written in a very neat, formal script based on King Sejo's own hand, with an overall impression of the Songseol calligraphic style. The Korean script is written in the square, block-form small characters characteristic of movable-type editions of the period, and diacritic tone-marks are attached to it, giving the text important value for research into the characteristics of the Korean language around the time Hangeul was created. This edition, printed from the Directorate for the Publication of Buddhist Scriptures' woodblocks, represents the completed vernacular-translation edition set in the eulhae-type, and became the standard for vernacular translations of the period; as a vernacular translation applying Hangeul and Sino-Korean readings in the Dongguk jeongun system, it is highly valued.

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Where it is

Region

Seongnam, Gyeonggi

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Treasure · 보물