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Published 6 years ago by Appaloosa with 2 Comments
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Tripitaka Koreana

Over 80,000 carved wood blocks make up one of the world's oldest intact Buddhist canons

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  • Appaloosa
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    So I enter into world most Guyjin do not.

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  • archmagician
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    I immediately started looking for books with images of all the blocks but, given there are 81,258 blocks, it'd probably one bloody big and expensive book.

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