One juan (juan 15). Six columns per page, 17 characters per column. 75 pages. Height of printed text including woodcut borders: 244 mm.; total length: 8475 mm. Tall narrow 8vo (327 x 113 mm.) in accordion format, orig. sutra binding of silk-covered boards (upper cover with blue silk, lower with orange silk), wood-block printed title label on upper cover. [China]: Ming or Qing dynasty.

A fine and rare copy of a Ming or Qing period printing of this sutra. This work, Fang guang bo re bo luo mi jing, “is not a direct translation from the original Sanskrit text... More