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The Dunhuang Diamond Sutra is printed

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A woodblock-printed scroll of the Diamond Sutra is produced and dated by its own colophon to a day in 868, conventionally converted to 11 May. Recovered from Mogao Cave 17, it is the earliest dated complete printed book known, and it demonstrates that printing was in working use on the routes four centuries before it appeared in Europe.

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Assembled from 45 blocks · 2 evidence · 33 related

  1. Story
  2. A woodblock-printed scroll of the Diamond Sutra is produced and dated by its own colophon to a day in 868, conventionally converted to 11 May. Recovered from Mogao Cave 17, it is the earliest dated complete printed book known, and it demonstrates that printing was in working use on the routes four centuries before it appeared in Europe.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Paper
  5. Buddhism
  6. Mogao Caves
  7. The Dunhuang Diamond Sutra is printed
  8. Connections
  9. Mogao Caves
  10. Buddhism
  11. Paper
  12. Religious syncretism at contact points
  13. Dunhuang
  14. Dunhuang
  15. Buddhism
  16. First cave cut at Mogao (traditional date)
  17. The Dunhuang Diamond Sutra is printed
  18. Mogao Cave 17 is sealed
  19. Wang Yuanlu opens Mogao Cave 17
  20. The Dunhuang manuscripts are dispersed
  21. Mogao Caves inscribed on the World Heritage List
  22. Traditional founding of the first cave at Mogao
  23. Sogdian merchant networks
  24. Silk Road religious corridor
  25. Xuanzang
  26. Mogao Caves
  27. First cave cut at Mogao (traditional date)
  28. Xuanzang travels to India and back
  29. The Dunhuang Diamond Sutra is printed
  30. Gandhara
  31. Ashoka (Ashoka Maurya)
  32. Ashoka's bilingual Greek-Aramaic inscription at Kandahar
  33. Council at Pataliputra and the despatch of Buddhist missions (traditional account)
  34. Buddhism attested in Han China
  35. Anthropomorphic Buddha images appear in Gandhara and Mathura
  36. Traditional founding of the first cave at Mogao
  37. Xuanzang's overland journey to India and return
  38. Construction of Borobudur under Shailendra patronage
  39. Sogdian merchant networks
  40. Papermaking
  41. The Sogdian Ancient Letters are abandoned west of Dunhuang
  42. The Dunhuang Diamond Sutra is printed
  43. Evidence
  44. A woodblock-printed scroll dated by its own colophon to 868 CE, the earliest dated complete printed book known. Its presence at Dunhuang shows printing in working use on the corridor four centuries before it appeared in Europe.
  45. Catalogues and digitally reunites the material removed from Mogao Cave 17 and other eastern Silk Road sites between 1900 and the 1920s, now held in London, Paris, Beijing, St Petersburg and Tokyo. The dispersal is physical and permanent; the reassembly is digital.
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