Word: dharani
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...Shih of Poking, one of the leading philosophers and men of letters in China today, has discovered that the Chinese scroll is from a collection of fragments of a Dharani Sutra, printed from wood-block in the year...
...Shih, of Pekin, one of the leading philosophers and men of letters in China today, said that the Harvard scroll is one of the few fragments of a Dharani Sutra, printed in 975 and deposited in the cavities made in the bricks that were used to build the Red Pagoda. When the Pagoda fall to ruin in 1924 a few copies were found still in fairly good condition despite nearly ten centuries of burial. The fragment is about three feet long, and two feet wide, or approximately one-half its original length...
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