Ssanggyesa Temple, South Gyeongsang Province

Wood printing blocks

A Buddha statue In the building that houses (behind the wooden slats) 1,743 woodblocks, used to print a total of 36 Buddhist scriptures and books on Buddhism, like “A Collection of the Essential Buddhist Teachings”, written by Seon monks, theoretical books on the once widely popular Seon Buddhism (better known in the West through its Japanese variant Zen), the Daesung sutra and textbooks used in temple schools.

Photo by Ludo Kuipers, Fri Jul 04, 2014
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