Diamond Sutra, 868 CE, ink on paper. London, British Library, Or.8210/P.2. © The British Library Board
The Diamond Sutra: A Story of Printing, Piety and Preservation on the Silk Road
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Susan Whitfield, the director of the International Dunhuang Project, takes us on a journey of exploration of the many facets of the Diamond Sutra (a sacred Mahayana Buddhist tex), which dates from 868 and is the world's oldest dated complete printed book.
This lecture complements the exhibition Cave Temples of Mogao: Buddhist Art on China's Silk Road