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The Chinese Buddhist Canon () is the total body of Buddhist literature deemed canonical in China , Korea and Japan and includes texts from Nikaya as well as Mahayana schools. There are many versions of the canon in East Asia in different places and time. A comprehensive intact version of the Buddhist canon in Chinese Script is the '' Tripiṭaka Koreana '' or ''Palman Daejanggyeong''. It is based on older Chinese versions, and it was carved between 1236 and 1251, during Korea's Goryeo Dynasty, onto 81,340 wooden printing blocks with no known errors in the 52,382,960 characters. It is stored at the Haeinsa temple, South Korea . The most used version is ''Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō''(''Taishō Tripiṭaka'', 大正新脩大藏經), a modern standardized edition published in Tokyo between 1924 and 1934. It is based on older Japanese versions, which are based on the Tripiṭaka Koreana, and compared to many other versions of the individual texts in Japan. There are a few Dunhuang cave texts. It contains 100 volumes. Volume 1-85 are the literature, in which volume 56-84 are Japanese buddhist literature. Volume 86-97 are Buddhism related drawings, includes drawings of many Buddhas and Bodhisattvas . Volume 98-100 are texts of different indexes of buddhist texts in Japan. The 85 volumes of literature contains 5320 individual texts.
The Zokuzokyo (Xuzangjing) version, which is a supplement of another version of the canon, is often used as a supplement to the ''Taishō Tripiṭaka''. EXTERNAL LINKS General
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