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Some background on the Korean Tripitaka
- The Korean Tripitaka has been printed from woodblocks in
the middle of the thirteenth century
- More than 80000 printing blocks are preserved, making it
the oldest extant complete set of printing blocks of any version
of the Chinese Buddhist Tripitaka
- Digitization began in the early 1990's with the aim of
faithfully reproducing the text
- The first version (published 1996) encoded every character variant separately
- The second version (published 2000) encoded characters and
variants on two levels
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