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Woodblock Printing of the Diamond Sutra

Type Event Region East Asia Time 868

In 868 CE, a scroll of the Diamond Sutra was printed in Dunhuang, China; found in 1907, it is the world's earliest dated extant woodblock-printed boo…

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  1. 868Dunhuang · GansuThe patron Wang Jie funded the printing of a scroll of the Diamond Sutra using woodblock technique; the colophon fully records the date and the reason for printing, becoming the earliest surviving physical evidence of a dated printed work.

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