TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pak,Sang-jin
TI  - Under the microscope: the secrets of the Tripitaka Koreana woodblocks 
SN  - 9781443867320
AV  - BQ1217 .P3613 2013eb
U1  - 294.382 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Newcastle upon Tyne
PB  - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - Sacred books
KW  - Buddhist wood-engraving
KW  - Printing
KW  - Korea
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Block books, Korean
KW  - Wood
KW  - Microscopy
KW  - Bouddhisme
KW  - Livres sacrés
KW  - Bois
KW  - Microscopie
KW  - Interdisciplinary studies
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Buddhist sacred texts
KW  - Botany & plant sciences
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Comparative Religion
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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
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