In this paper, I conducted a comparative study for Seongyoushikryoeuideungcho (Vol. 3 and Vol. 4) in which Hui zhăo (651-714) annotated on Ch’êng wei shih lun with the wood-printed books from Qū wò xuán Library and Tenri University Library, and the printed books of Taishôzô and Manzokukyô.
Seongyoushikryoeuideungcho, the only script in the nation, was the woodblock-printed book of the Gan'gyeongdogam, which was in charge of buddhist scriptures, in the period of King Sejo (1455-1468). The same woodblock-printed book was engraved as translating the book from Sòng China according to the record on the print.
Seongyoushikryoeuideungcho of the Gan'gyeongdogam was found inside the clothing of the northern heavenly King among four guardian kings in the Songgwang Temple, on the seventh, Jan, 2004, currently designated as the Treasure no. 1468.
If comparing with woodblock-printed books and other printed books I mentioned above, Seongyoushikryoeuideungcho, the scripture of Gan'gyeongdogam, has lots of wrong records, mis-engraved letters, and mistakes which might occur in the proofreading, engraving, or transmitting processes. Such wrong records and mistakes are those which we can find out mainly in the manuscripts of Dūnháng in the Central Asia before the period of Sòng China, when the prints of Tripitaka Koreana were engraved.
However, unfortunately Seongyoushikryoeuideungcho of the Gan'gyeongdogam was the woodblock-printed books, though it has been transmitted against the writer's original intention. Especially, we are able to find out deletions, corrections, wrong records, mistakes of sentences of demonstrative pronouns, nouns, propositions, conjunctions, infinitives in the Seongyoushikryoeuideungcho of the Gan'gyeongdogam and the errors by editors in the printed books of Taishôzô. These are as below. ① deletion of words, ② correction of words and sentences, ③ repeatedly graved words, ④ graving Chinese words which have same sounds, ⑤ graving Chinese words which have same meanings and sounds, ⑥ graving Chinese words which have similar meanings, ⑦ graving changed words and sentences, ⑧ changing words' positions, ⑨ graving Chinese words which have similar letter types, and ⑩ different letter types and so forth.
According to my comparative study, there are two types of Seongyoushikryoeuideungcho currently used. The woodblock-printed books of the Songgwang Temple and the books of Qū wò xuán Library are in the same type and also the prints of Taishôzô and Manzokukyô are in the same type.
The woodblock-printed books have the same styles of the books of Qū wò xuán Library-letter types, numbers of lines and letters, deleted and added words, and different style of letters etc. Therefore, we can confirm that the woodblock-printed books of the Gan'gyeongdogam was the translated and engraved prints of Qū wò xuán Library.
As a result, I wanted to say that Seongyoushikryoeuideungcho has been transmitted against the intention of the writer, Hui zhăo, as compared some woodblock-printed books and manuscripts with other sources. I look forward to having various buddhist and bibliography studies following this research.