Ink on White Paper Bul Sermon Hwasammaegyeong

This is a sutra translated by Zhiyan during the Liu Song dynasty (420–478). The text takes the form of an exchange in which, while the Buddha was residing at Vulture Peak (Grdhrakuta) in Rajagriha, the king of Rajagriha together with his consorts, the crown prince and the princesses saw the Buddha emerge from within the earth and take his seat upon a great jewelled lotus flower. Princess Ihaeng, having witnessed this, asked the Buddha about the Lotus Samadhi — the state attained by constantly reciting the Lotus Sutra and awakening to its subtle principle — that made such a miraculous occurrence possible, and the Buddha explains it in reply. The Buddha states that among all forms of samadhi (a state of concentrating the mind wholly on a single object, free of distracting thoughts), the Lotus Samadhi is foremost, and teaches that through it even a woman may attain Buddhahood. This is a print made from the Tripitaka Koreana woodblocks (the "Re-carved Buddhist Canon"), carved in 1245 by the Daejang Dogam (Directorate for the Buddhist Canon) and now kept at Haeinsa Temple in Hapcheon, South Gyeongsang Province. Its state of preservation is relatively good, and it has recently been backed with lining paper. Each page of the woodblock print has 23 lines, with 14 characters per line. This item was among the personal effects of the monk Ham Do-seong, who passed away in August 1994, and it was identified during the first survey of artefacts held by the Buddhist order, conducted in 2001 in preparation for the establishment of the Cheontae Museum.

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Where it is

Region

Danyang, Chungbuk

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산