Thursday 21 June 2012

The Oldest Chinese Wood block Print

The oldest Chinese woodblock print 
discovered so far is probably unless something older turns up this image below.


It shows part of the Diamond Sutra and Buddha and Boddhisattvas.

Consider this irony. The need for copies of religious texts created more literacy so that there would be readers availalbe to read secular texts and then newspapers.

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