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China to reprint Buddhist encyclopaedia

BEIJING, JUNE 27. China has launched a massive project to reprint a 270-year-old, gigantic edition of the Buddhist canon, which if piled, could make a 40-storey high-rise. The printing of this ancient edition of the Buddhist literature collection started in 1735 and was completed in 1738, or the third year under the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911). The Qianlong edition of the Buddhist Canon was a collection of all Buddhist literature translations over a history of 1,700 years after Buddhism was introduced into China from India.

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