Famen Temple (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Softcover, 11 1/4 by 8 1/4 inches, 191 pages, illustrated. Text, apparently complete, in Chinese and English. Covers have very slight wear and the pages are clean.

Couverture souple. Condition: Comme neuf. Edition originale. Bilingual book: Mandarin and English. First edition. Ğ llustrated by 31 color plates of objects and additional color photographs of the museum. Includes two ephemeral pieces from the exhibition (Historical Dragon Relics Exhibition Brief Exhibition [and] Exhibition of Treasury from the Crypt of the Famen Temple).ğ.

Notes, 120pp, 61 coloured photographic illustrations, edges to leaves sunned, paperback in glassine, glassine rubbed, good copy. This photographic album was published with the aim of helping readers acquire a better understanding of the relics unearthed from the Famen Temple crypt. It is written in simplified Chinese with English translation for the notes and introduction.

Colour photographic illustrations, unpaginated (52pp), elegant bookplate prior owner front free endpaper, very good paperback copy. Text in English and Chinese.

A collection of 16 printed leaves, dating from the Heian and Song to Early Edo and Qing Period or 12th to 17th century, which I've dubbed Mokuhan he, or Ky?gire, also known as Ancient Sutra Fragments. As entailed, these leaves are surviving sections from a various collection of sutras fascicles, including the Sutra of Immeasurable Life, The Lotus Sutra, and others. The printing sources are various, but some identified examples seem to come from Shinsui Zenkoji Temple and Shinko-ji Temple in Japan, but also Baoshan Temple and Famen Temple in China. Most of the fragments are from Japan, likely from Kasuga-Ban editions of sutras, but several are certainly more likely of Chinese origin, and each one has been produced on fine paper, with a number (most likely the Japanese ones) being treated with mica dust. On their own, each piece is an interesting piece of Medieval Japanese history and Buddhism, and as a collection they make an astounding series of materials for study and further preservation. Each printed sutra fragment has been loosely mounted onto a modern cardboard sheet, with an early title slip for a number of them. Sixteen woodblock print sutras fragments, 17 x 12.5 cm smallest to 16.1 x 9.9 cm largest These fragments are in very good shape, with minor staining and worm tracks to some of them, and two fragments more heavily worn or wormed with slight character loss.