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Reprinting of the Jiaxing Tripitaka during the Late Joseon Dynasty

LEE, Jong Su 1

1동국대학교

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ABSTRACT

In June 1681, a Chinese merchant ship was cast away on the coast of Imja Island in Jeolla Province. The ship was fully loaded up with imprints of the Jiaxing Tripitaka published over one hundred years since the end of the Ming dynasty. More than a thousand Buddhist scriptures and other artifacts were collected by the government office of Naju and, eventually, sent to the royal court of Joseon. However, local monks collected Buddhist scriptures in wooden containers scattered on the shore. More importantly, they selected some texts included in the Jiaxing Tripitaka and had them reprinted. The monk Baegam Seongchong, who collected the Jiaxing Tripitaka on Imja Island, reprinted seven texts in 154 volumes from 1686 to 1700. The wood-blocks were then stored in Jinggwangsa Temple in Nagan. The monk Gyepa Seongneung led reprinting of one text in forty volumes in 1695 at Ssanggye Temple located on Mt. Jiri. In addition, Yongheungsa Temple in Damyang sponsored reprinting of a text in two volumes; Wangsangsa Temple on Mt. Jiri reprinted two texts in two volumes between 1713 and 1714; Hwaeomsa Temple on Mt. Jiri had three texts in seven volumes reprinted in 1724; Hamwol Haewon of Seogwangsa in Anbyeon sponsored reproduction of two texts in three volumes; and Bongjeongsa Temple in Andong reprinted three texts in thirty-four volumes in 1769.

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