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<BR>Subject: Re: Sanskrit Text Oldest Example of Printing
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<BR>One of the oldest woodblock printed books
<BR>is LalitavistAra sUtram from China. Available
<BR>at British Library, London.
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<BR>--- In agathiyar@y..., veejay_kavi@h... wrote:
<BR>> Folks,
<BR>> 
<BR>> A friend of mine send it over to me...very interesting....
<BR>> 
<BR>> Rgs,
<BR>> 
<BR>> VeeJay
<BR>> _________________________________________________________________
<BR>> 
<BR>> Sanskrit Text Oldest Example of Printing 
<BR>> Source: http://www.cgan.com.hk/english/cpg/engcp10.htm 
<BR>> 
<BR>> CHINA, November 25, 2001: The exact year in which woodblock 
<BR>printing 
<BR>> was 
<BR>> invented is still very much debated in academic circles because no 
<BR>> artifacts 
<BR>> or documentary records related to the earliest printing have been 
<BR>> discovered. However, a sheet with mantras of the Dharani Sutra, in 
<BR>> Sanskrit, 
<BR>> printed in the early Tang and unearthed in the suburban district of 
<BR>> Xi'an is 
<BR>> the earliest extant printing relic. A picture of the still readable 
<BR>> sheet is 
<BR>> shown at "source" above. The Dharani Sutra is the teaching of 
<BR>Buddha 
<BR>> on 
<BR>> "Longevity, the extinction of offenses, and the protection of 
<BR>> youngchildren.
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