Daejaampan Lotus Sutra Gwon3~4. held at Seondeoksa Temple

This book is a print edition personally transcribed by Seong Dal-saeng and Seong Gae — the grandfather of Seong Sam-mun, one of the Six Martyred Ministers — and published at Daejaam Hermitage in 1422, the fourth year of King Sejong. Of the complete set of seven gwon in three volumes, the two volumes containing gwon 1–2 and gwon 5–7 are missing, and only the volume containing gwon 3–4 is held here. The front and back covers were removed when the book was used in a bokjang, the ritual deposit placed inside a Buddhist statue, but this is notable in that it provides clues to various features of how the book was made. It is generally held that old Korean books were bound with five stitches, but interestingly this Seondeoksa copy clearly shows traces of having been sewn with six stitches on the inner binding, and its outer cover was likewise bound with six stitches. The paper used for printing is a typical ingyeongji, the kind of scripture paper widely produced from the reign of King Sejong to that of King Seongjong. Regarding the physical features of this copy, taking the title page of gwon 3 as the reference, the border is a sajudanbyeon, a single-line frame on all four sides, and the half-folio measures 13.7 cm wide by 21 cm tall. There are no column-dividing lines, and each half-leaf has ten lines of text with twenty characters per line. In particular, the pansim, the central margin of the printed page, shows no eomi (fishtail-shaped marks), seemingly under the influence of Goryeo-period editions, and bears only the pansimje, the character 法 (beop, "Dharma," abbreviated from the sutra's full title), with the volume and folio numbers shown beneath it. This layout is one of the prominent general characteristics found in editions produced by Seong Dal-saeng. This book is an edition published in 1422, the fourth year of King Sejong in the early Joseon period, at Daejaam Hermitage under the direction of the monk Haengho and others. Complete copies are now extremely rare in Korea, making it a precious piece of printed-book heritage, and an identical edition, held at Girimsa Temple, has been designated a treasure.

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Where it is

Region

Seogwipo, Jeju

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산