Printing as one of the four great inventions of China has been generally recognized as such by scholars around the world. Contemporary Korean scholars have largely tended to hold the opinion that printing started in t...Printing as one of the four great inventions of China has been generally recognized as such by scholars around the world. Contemporary Korean scholars have largely tended to hold the opinion that printing started in the Korean Peninsula during the Koryo^2 Dynasty (936-1391) at the beginning of the 11th century as a result of the technological influence of the Northern Song^3 Dynasty (960-1126) of China. However, after a printed dharani sutra, the Wugou jingguang da-tuoluoni jing^4, or Unsoiled and purified-brightened Dharani Sutra(Aryarasmivimalvi suddha-prabha nama-dharani sutra, abbreviated dharani sutra below) scroll, was discovered on 13 October 1966 at a pagoda of the Buddhist temple Pulguk-sa^5, Kyongju^6, in southeast Korea,展开更多
文摘Printing as one of the four great inventions of China has been generally recognized as such by scholars around the world. Contemporary Korean scholars have largely tended to hold the opinion that printing started in the Korean Peninsula during the Koryo^2 Dynasty (936-1391) at the beginning of the 11th century as a result of the technological influence of the Northern Song^3 Dynasty (960-1126) of China. However, after a printed dharani sutra, the Wugou jingguang da-tuoluoni jing^4, or Unsoiled and purified-brightened Dharani Sutra(Aryarasmivimalvi suddha-prabha nama-dharani sutra, abbreviated dharani sutra below) scroll, was discovered on 13 October 1966 at a pagoda of the Buddhist temple Pulguk-sa^5, Kyongju^6, in southeast Korea,
