China, Japan, Korea, History, Sacred Writings, Other Eastern Religions & Sacred Texts 

The Buddhist Canon Encounters the West -- Finding the First Chinese Tripitaka in the West: Early European Buddhology, the 1872 Iwakura Mission in Britain, and the Mystery of the Obaku Canon in the India Office Library / Jiang Wu -- Inventing Buddhist Bibles in Japan: From Nanjo Bun'yu to Numata Yehan / Greg Wilkinson, Nicholas J. Frederick -- Use And Utility of Modern Editions and Printings -- Otani Kozui's Tripitaka Diplomacy in China and the Qing Dragon Canon at Ryukoku University / Tomoo Kida -- The 1913 Pinjia Canon and the Changing Role of the Buddhist Canon in Modern China / Gregory Adam Scott -- Bearing the Canon on the Crown of the Head: Jeongdae Bulsa and Worship of the Buddhist Canon in Contemporary Korean Buddhism / Richard D. McBride II -- The Buddhist Canon in the Digital Age -- The Digital Tripitaka and the Modern World / Christian Wittern -- The SAT Taisho Text Database: A Brief History / A. Charles Muller, Masahiro Shimoda, Kiyonori Nagasaki. 

xxxv, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm 

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