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A Study on Carving Block for Printing of Yangzhou Cangjing yuan(揚州藏經院) and the Writing of Koreans

Park Hyun Kyu 1

1순천향대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this article is to study printing blocks and the content containing within the blocks of Yangzhou Cangjing yuan(Holding Scripture Depository). Yangzhou Cangjing yuan was the place for carving block for printing Buddhist scriptures in Yangzhou during the late Qing and early Republic of China. It is located at Wanhongfang(宛虹坊) 58hao in Guanglingqu(廣陵區), Yangzhou(揚州), Jiangsu Province(江蘇省), People'S Republic Of China. Cangbange and Cangjinglou still exist. It is said that a carving project was undertaken in the reign period of Xianfeng, but we can not still find its substance. The organization began the activity of carving in a full-scale from 1874(the 13th reign year of Tongzhi) and stopped entirely in 1939(the 28th reign year of Republic of China) when the Sino-Japanese War broke out. forty thousand to fifty thousand sheets of printing blocks stored in Yangzhou Cangjing yuan were transferred to Guangling shushe(廣陵書社) in the early days of the Cultural Revolution and moved again in 2005 to Yangzhou Zhongguo diaoyban yinshua bowuguan(Yangzhou Museum of Chinese Carving Printing揚州中國雕版印刷博物館). Now Yangzhou Zhongguo Diaoban yinshua bowuguan has thirty thousands sheets of Buddhist scriptures. It is presumed that most of them are the edition of Yangzhou Cangjing yuan and those of Zhongxingan(衆香庵版) are partly included. ≪Yangzhou Cangjing yuan jingshu mulu(扬州藏经院經書目錄)≫ was carved on August 1927(the 16th reign year of the Republic of China). Two kinds of books written by Korean are included in the edition of Yangzhou Cangjing yuan. One is ≪Cheontae sagyoui(天台四敎儀)≫ by Chegwan(諦觀) of Goryeo, which was carved in 1909(the ist reign year of Xuantong). The other is ≪Goryeoguk Bojoseonsa susimgyeol(高麗國普照禪師修心訣)≫ by Jinul(知訥) of Goryeo, which was carved in 1916(the 5th year of Republic of China).

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