Under the microscope : the secrets of the Tripitaka Koreana woodblocks / by Sang-jin Park ; translated by Ji-hyun Philippa Kim.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Korean Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 165 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - 9781443867320
- 1443867322
- Namu e saegyŏjin Pʻalman Taejanggyŏng ŭi pimil. English
- Buddhism -- Sacred books
- Buddhist wood-engraving -- Printing -- Korea -- History -- To 1500
- Block books, Korean -- History -- To 1500
- Wood -- Microscopy
- Buddhism -- Sacred books
- Bouddhisme -- Livres sacrés
- Bois -- Microscopie
- Bouddhisme -- Livres sacrés
- Interdisciplinary studies
- Buddhist sacred texts
- Botany & plant sciences
- RELIGION -- Comparative Religion
- Block books, Korean
- Buddhism
- Buddhist wood-engraving -- Printing
- Korea
- To 1500
- 294.382 23
- BQ1217 .P3613 2013eb
- online - EBSCO
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Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online | online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Online access | Not for loan (Accesso limitato) | Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users | (ebsco)849513 |
The present volume presents a wood anatomist's study of the Tripitaka Koreana, the world's oldest surviving printing artifact from 13th-century Korea. Whereas existing research on this most comprehensive and accurate version of the Buddhist canon in East Asia has relied primarily on incomplete textual evidence and on less than reliable oral traditions in addressing the secrets of the creation, birthplace, material, and miraculous conservation of the Tripitaka Koreana, the author of this volume looks to physical evidence - the woodblocks themselves - for answers.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; LIST OF TABLES; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

