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One of the “One Million Pagodas” (Hyakumanto)

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Description: One of the “One Million Pagodas” (Hyakumanto)

TitleOne of the “One Million Pagodas” (Hyakumanto)

Creator nameUnknown

Creator nationality/cultureJapanese

Creator roleSculptor

Creation datec. 764–70

Creation date (description)Nara period (710–794)

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsJapanese cypress (hinoki) and Cleyera ochnacea (sakaki)

LocationThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/44955

Accession number30.47a–c

SubjectsStūpas, Miniature

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Chapter Three: The Buddha’s Word

Description: The Woman Who Discovered Printing

The Woman Who Discovered Printing

~Mankind today can look back on the Buddha, the ‘Enlightened One’, as one of the most successful religious teachers in history, a man whose ideas still influence millions in every part of the world. However to grasp his importance not to religion but to information technology we need to understand not the whole of his...

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PublisherYale University Press

Copyright© 2008 T. H. Barrett

Related print edition pages: pp.42-55

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00274.003

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Chapter subject tags:Printing--HistoryBuddhismBuddhist relicsBuddhism--Sacred booksTaoism

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