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Saturday, August 12, 2023
The Diamond Sutra Is The Oldest Surviving Complete Printed Book
In 2013 the British Library completed a decade-long project to conserve the oldest dated printed book in the world, a scroll copy in Chinese of the Buddhist text, 'The Diamond Sutra' from the Silk Road town of Dunhuang dated to May 868.
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