Commandeur Adama
Magister Ordo Kolob - Admin
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Age : 60
Localisation : Pays de Néphi - Mormon forest
Date d'inscription : 16/02/2007
Chevalier de Kolob - Vers la Sagesse
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 |  Sujet: Religious calligraphy  Mer 28 Mai - 13:06 | |
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 | Cao Fashou, with others. Northern Wei sutra copy of the Avatamsaka sutra, detail source |
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Religious calligraphy continued to be of great importance during the Tang. Until the widespread use of printing in China after the Tang dynasty, religious texts were copied by hand. Buddhist texts in particular were copied in great numbers by monks or by individuals. Copies of the entire Buddhist canon were undertaken by imperial decree, and often the work of many individual calligraphers went into the completion of various sutra texts, which could be quite long. When sutra texts were commissioned, it was common practice to have the most talented calligraphers do the first and last scrolls, with the work parceled out to other scribes in between.
How could making or commissioning a handwritten copy of a Buddhist sutra benefit an individual?
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