Woodblock-printed. 27 joined sheets (numbered except 3 & 27), 62.5 folding leaves, red edges. Tall narrow 8vo, bound between wooden boards. Hà Nội: Kì vũ tự 祈雨寺, 1889 (date of publisher’s colophon; copy perhaps printed in 1922).

A beautiful and rare example of Vietnamese printing in the accordion (“sutra-binding” or orihon) format. We find no Vietnamese edition of this sutra in WorldCat, and only the later, 1906 edition is listed in the Vietnamese Han-Nom Literature Database, surviving in two copies at the Institute of Hán-Nôm Studies (AC.403 & 498).

The Sutra of Infinite Meanings, together with the Lotus Sutra and... More