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ID: 700009008 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009008 | Record Type: Movable Work |
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The Diamond Sutra (scroll (information artifact); unknown Chinese (Sichuan); 868; British Library (London, Greater London, England, United Kin...; Or.8210/P.2 (Ch.cii.014)) | |
Note: A central text of Indian Buddhism, the Diamond Sutra was first translated from Sanskrit into Chinese in about 400 CE. Carved wooden blocks were used to print this copy on a scroll made from seven panels of paper. 40,000 similar scrolls were found in 1900 when the sealed-up door of a cave was revealed during restoration work at a Buddhist monastery near Dunhuang, in Chinese Central Asia. Commissioned by a certain Wang Jie on behalf of his parents; noted among the world’s earliest-known printed texts and the first complete printed text bearing a date. The large frontispiece, which depicts the Buddha in Jetavana preaching to the elder disciple, Subhūti, is followed by a “mouth purifying” mantra ( jingkouye zhenyan), dedications to eight vajra deities, Kumārajīva’s translation of the influential Mahayana text, another mantra, and finally the single-line dated colophon. Its sophisticated design speaks of a mature publishing industry, and thus it may have been produced in Sichuan Province, an important printing center in this period. | |
Titles: |
The Diamond Sutra (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U) |
Printed Copy of the Diamond Sutra (C,U,DE,English,U,U) |
金剛經印本 (C,U,Chinese,U,U) |
Catalog Level: item |
scroll (information artifact) [300028629] (preferred) |
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), information artifacts, <information artifacts by physical form>) |
woodblock prints [300041405] |
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, relief prints) |
printed materials (preferred) |
Creation Date: 868 |
unknown Chinese (Sichuan) [preferred] |
printers (people) unknown Chinese (Chinese cultural designation) [500125222] |
Locations: |
Current: British Library (London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom) [500301700] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body) |
Repository Numbers: Or.8210/P.2 (Ch.cii.014) |
Other: Creation: Sichuan [7002087] China (nation), Asia (continent), World (facet) (Geographic) |
Current: Discovery: Qianfodong [7029798] Gansu province (province), China (nation), Asia (continent), World (facet) (Geographic) |
Display Materials: Ink on paper; woodblock printing on scroll made from 7 panels of paper |
ink [300015012] | |
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>) |
paper (fiber product) [300014109] | |
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>) |
block printing (relief printing process) [300053289] | |
.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, relief printing processes) |
Dimensions: 27.6 × 499.5 cm (10 7⁄8 × 196 5⁄8 in.) |
Chinese (preferred) |
religion and mythology (preferred) |
text |
Diamond Sutra [901001375] | |
.....((Named sutras, Literary works: Philosophy, Religion, Named written and performed works, Literature and Performing Arts)) (ICON) |
Buddha in Jetavana [901001385] | |
.....((Buddhist narratives, Buddhist iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON) |
Chinese (language) [300388113] | |
.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), language-related concepts, <languages and writing systems>, <languages and writing systems by specific type>, <temporary alphabetical list: languages and writing systems>) (AAT) |
Copyright: © The British Library Board |
Provenance: found by explorer Sir Marc Aurel Stein in 1907 |
former location was .... Mogao Cave 17 [700008877] | |
..........rock-cut temple; N/A; begun 9th century |
List/Hierarchical Position: |
..... Movable Works |
.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media |
............... Works at Mogao |
Sources and Contributors: | |
The Diamond Sutra | ........ [VP] |
........ British Library [online] (2000-) | |
Printed Copy of the Diamond Sutra | ........ [VP] |
........ Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016) Cat 30 | |
金剛經印本 | ........ [VP] |
........ Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016) | |
Subject: ....... [VP] |
....................... Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016) Cat 30 |
Note: | |
English | ..... [VP] |
..... Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016) Cat 30 | |
..... British Library [online] (2000-) | |
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