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Title

  • Miao fa lian hua jing : qi juan

Other Title

  • 妙法蓮華經 : 七卷 /

Names

  • Kumārajīva, -412?, yi.
  • Daoxuan, 596-667, xu.
  • Chen, Gao, active 12th century, dao.
  • Chen, Zhong, active 12th century, ke.
  • Hong, Xin, ke.
  • Hong, Mao, active 12th century, ke.
  • Jiang, Hui, active 12th century, ke.
  • Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress).

Created / Published

  • [China : publisher not identified, Nan Song Shaoxing mo, i.e. between 1150 and 1162?]

Headings

  • -  Buddhism--Doctrines
  • -  Zi bu--Shi jia lei
  • -  子部--釋家類

Notes

  • -  Also available in digital form.
  • -  Gift Ellery Sedgwick 1948.
  • -  一捲一木匣. One folded sheet in wooden case.
  • -  南宋紹興末刻本 經褶裝 上下單邊 左右通欄 無魚尾 匡高16.8公分 全書高19.6，寬8.7公分 (全書攤開時, 長68呎4吋, 寬6.5吋).
  • -  十二行二十七字. On each sheet, twelve lines with twenty-seven characters per line.
  • -  函脊號 1565 簽條號無.
  • -  封面封底佚去。卷一題"姚秦三藏法師鳩摩羅什奉詔譯"。前刻佛經故事圖，釋道宣《妙法蓮華經弘傳序》。正文前扉畫繪刻精細，全畫是一幅故事畫的構圖，佔了七個褶葉的畫面以"之"字佈局，連貫著一個一個的單元場景。這些單元並非按照經文的次第來安排，而是對經文中的重要宗教理念作出形象化的說明。這些形象化的單元有高度概括性，每一單元都標上說明，如"靈山妙會"，"授聲聞記"，"三車出宅"，"聚沙為塔"，"王子覆講"，"妙音東來"，"智積文殊"，"藥王燃臂"，"千佛授手"等等，佈局十分繁複，卻沒有擁擠的感覺。尤其難得的是，綫條清晰利落，毫芒畢現，雕刻水平十分高超.
  • -  本書的刊印年代，可由刻工推知。卷端扉畫末左下鐫"四明陳高刀"，而在全數34葉中的20葉，有"陳忠"、"洪新"、"洪茂"、"蔣暉"等刻工名字（隱藏於接縫内）。據王重民考證，這五人中有兩人在1146年刻過《事類賦》，有三人在1158年刻過《文選》，有一人在1164年刻過《武經龜鑒》，都是杭州及附近地區的刊本，因此認為此本《妙法蓮華經》當是1160年前後杭州地區的刻本（John M. Rosenfield [Harvard University]: "The Sedgwick Statue of the Infant Shotoku Taishi", Archives of Asian Art 22 [1968/69] p.63引王重民說；Sedgwick，Ellery: "A Chinese printed scroll of the Lotus Sutra", Library of Congress Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisition 6:2 [February 1949] p.9），是見證當時該地區印書高度水平的代表作.

Medium

  • 1 volume : illustration

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2014514056

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Kumārajīva, -412?, Yi, 596-667 Daoxuan, Gao Chen, Zhong Chen, Xin Hong, Mao Hong, Hui Jiang, and Chinese Rare Book Collection. Miao Fa Lian Hua Jing: Qi Juan. [China: publisher not identified, nan song shaoxing mo, i.e. between 1150 and 1162?, 1150] Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/2014514056/.

APA citation style:

Kumārajīva, -., Daoxuan, 5., Chen, G., Chen, Z., Hong, X., Hong, M. [...] Chinese Rare Book Collection. (1150) Miao Fa Lian Hua Jing: Qi Juan. [China: publisher not identified, nan song shaoxing mo, i.e. between 1150 and 1162?] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2014514056/.

MLA citation style:

Kumārajīva, -412?, Yi, et al. Miao Fa Lian Hua Jing: Qi Juan. [China: publisher not identified, nan song shaoxing mo, i.e. between 1150 and 1162?, 1150] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2014514056/>.