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Summary
Frontispiece, Diamond Sutra from Cave 17, Dunhuang, ink on paper.
A page from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Sutra" class="extiw" title="en:Diamond Sutra">Diamond Sutra</a>, printed in the 9th year of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Yizong_of_Tang" class="extiw" title="en:Emperor Yizong of Tang">Xiantong Era</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_Dynasty" class="extiw" title="en:Tang Dynasty">Tang Dynasty</a>, i.e. 868 CE. Currently located in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library" class="extiw" title="en:British Library">British Library</a>, London.
According to the British Library, it is “the earliest complete survival of a dated printed book”.
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current | 00:24, 22 December 2016 | 4,917 × 3,438 (10.38 MB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | Frontispiece, Diamond Sutra from Cave 17, Dunhuang, ink on paper. <p>A page from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Sutra" class="extiw" title="en:Diamond Sutra">Diamond Sutra</a>, printed in the 9th year of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Yizong_of_Tang" class="extiw" title="en:Emperor Yizong of Tang">Xiantong Era</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_Dynasty" class="extiw" title="en:Tang Dynasty">Tang Dynasty</a>, i.e. 868 CE. Currently located in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library" class="extiw" title="en:British Library">British Library</a>, London. </p> According to the British Library, it is “the earliest complete survival of a dated printed book”. |
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File usage
The following 27 pages link to this file:
- Banhua
- Four Great Inventions
- History of paper
- History of printing in East Asia
- History of science and technology in China
- List of Chinese inventions
- Mogao Caves
- Movable type
- Outline of books
- Portal:Books/DYK/5
- Portal:Mahayana Buddhism/Selected Article
- Portal:Mahayana Buddhism/Selected article/3
- Portal:Mahayana Buddhism/Selected article/4
- Print culture
- Printing
- Religious text
- Shen Kuo
- Tang dynasty
- Translation
- Visual arts
- Wang Zhen (inventor)
- Woodblock printing
- Portal:Books/DYK/5
- Portal:Mahayana Buddhism
- Portal:Mahayana Buddhism/Selected Article
- Portal:Mahayana Buddhism/Selected article/3
- Portal:Mahayana Buddhism/Selected article/4