With the holiday mood in the air and the sun blazing down in almost every part of our country, you might be one of those who does some reading to relax yourself after a draining session, playing ...

On 11 May 868 CE, a Chinese commissioner named Wang Jie walked into a printer's workshop and ordered a scroll to be made in memory of his parents. He could not have known that the object he was paying ...

On May 11, 868 C.E., something remarkable happened in China that would revolutionise how historians understood the history of printing. The Buddhist scripture called the Diamond Sutra was printed and ...

To readers unimpressed with the Google eBookstore’s ancient sutras offerings (search for “sutras” and you get primarily books about yoga), the British Library has an antidote: the Diamond Sutra, the ...

If somebody asks a group of people the name of the oldest book in the world, the majority answers will point to the Gutenberg Bible. But, it is not the Bible but rather a Buddhist text that owns the ...

Sutra is the Sanskrit word for a religious teaching or sermon, and Wang Jie’s Diamond Sutra opens (on the right of the scroll) with an image of the Buddha teaching a disciple named Subhuti. The core ...

If you love to read books, or have carried a book in a bag like a talisman when going outdoors, or left a book by your pillow and let its loving lull you to sleep, you might appreciate the importance ...

Writer and historian, Frances Wood, is head of the Chinese section at the British Library, where restoration work has been taking place on an edition of the world's oldest printed book - the Diamond ...

During recent conservation and reinforcement work around the six pagodas on the southern face of the West Hill at the Longmen Grottoes, researchers newly identified a stone inscription of the Diamond ...