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Songgwangsa edition of Chengguan’s Commentary on the Avataṃsaka-sūtra in 80 Rolls

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The Songgwangsa edition of Chengguan’s 澄觀 (738-839) Commentary on the Avataṃsaka-sūtra in 80 Rolls has the call number Songgwang-134-41 (송광-134-41) at the Songgwangsa Museum 松廣寺聖寶博物館. The book (ch’aek 冊) cover says “The Sword of the Avataṃsaka-sūtra” (Hwaŏm kyŏng kŏm 華嚴經 劒). Chengguan’s Commentary on the Avataṃsaka-sūtra in 80 Rolls corresponds to Dafangguang fo huayan jing shu 大方廣佛華嚴經疏 (T 1735). The Songgwangsa edition of Chengguan’s Commentary on the Avataṃsaka-sūtra in 80 Rolls was carved on woodblocks under the direction of Paegam Sŏngch’ong 栢巖性聰 (1631-1700). Paegam Sŏngch’ong supervised the printing of more than 5000 woodblocks on Hwaŏm/Huayan commentarial materials that became available in Chosŏn because a boat containing the Jiaxing Buddhist Canon 嘉興藏 shipwrecked on Imja Island 荏子島 in 1681. The woodblocks of the Songgwangsa edition were soon moved to Chinggwangsa 澄光寺, which published its first printing (kaep’an 開版) of this text in 1689. However, by 1770, the woodblocks had vanished. The edition possessed by the Songgwangsa Museum was previously owned by an otherwise unknown Buddhist believer named Chŏng Uch’ŏn 鄭祐天 信, whose stamp containing the forgoing four Sinographs is found on the first page, and whose notes to the text, written in literary Sino-Korean (hanmun 漢文), are written in the margins throughout the volume examined.

Sŭngju-gun (Korea); 35.5722564; 126.9844895

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2019-12-11

Attribution 4.0 International

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/72679

Unreviewed

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