Bulseolbulmochulsaengsambeopjangbanyabaramildagyeong Sutra vol. 12

The page format has a single-line upper and lower border, with 21.7 cm between the top and bottom borders, no vertical rule lines, and twenty-three lines of fourteen characters. The title carved at the head of the woodblock reads "Bulmo chulsaeng sambeopjang banyabaramildagyeong, vol. 12, leaf 2," and on the dark blue cover the title "Bulmo chulsaeng sambeopjang banyabaramildagyeong, vol. 12" is written in gold ink. The text is a woodblock print folded accordion-style in units of six lines per fold, with five lines on the first leaf. The Bulseolbulmochulsaengsambeopjangbanyabaramildagyeong Sutra is commonly known by the abbreviated title Sambeopjanggyeong. It was translated into Chinese by Danapala in 980, the fifth year of the Taipingxingguo era of the Song dynasty. This volume is the twelfth of the sutra's twenty-five volumes and thirty-two chapters in total, comprising the latter half of the "Chapter on the Hindrances Caused by Evil Persons" and the first half of the "Chapter Revealing the World." The content centres on the teaching of prajnaparamita, the fundamental law underlying every path to Buddhahood, and the merits of upholding it. The "Chapter on the Hindrances Caused by Evil Persons" gives examples of the obstacles that hinder the practice of prajna wisdom and stresses that, despite countless such obstacles, one must devote oneself solely to that practice. The "Chapter Revealing the World" explains that the Buddha came into this world to spread the prajna teaching that all things are empty and without distinction. At the end of the volume is a colophon reading "carved by royal decree at the Daejangdogam of the Goryeo kingdom in the gapjin year," showing that it was printed in the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century from woodblocks of the Jaejo Tripitaka, carved at the Daejangdogam (Directorate for the Buddhist Canon) in 1244, the thirty-first year of King Gojong of Goryeo, in the hope of repelling the Mongol invasions through the power of the Buddha. As a Goryeo-period printing of the Tripitaka Koreana, this is a rare surviving copy printed at a relatively early date.

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Seocho-gu, Seoul

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Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산