The Sutra of the Buddha

Japanese: 熹平石経 - きへいせっけい

…More than 1,000 carriages flocked to the stone sutra every day to see and copy it, and people marveled at the sacred artistry of the Chinese characters. It is the so-called Xiping Stone Sutra. Disasters occurred frequently, so he submitted a proposal for reform of politics, but was convicted by Cheng Huang and others. …

From the Stone Scriptures

… (1) Han Stone Classics It is said that in the late Later Han Dynasty, Cai Yong created a definitive copy and carved characters into stone to settle a dispute over the text of the classics. Construction began in the 4th year of the Xiping era (175) and was completed in the 9th year, so it is called the Xiping Stone Classic, and since it was written in clerical script only, it is also called the One-character Stone Classic. It contains seven classics: the Book of Changes, the Book of Shangshu, the Book of Songs (Lu Shi), the Great Daili, the Spring and Autumn Annals, the Gongyang Zhuan, and the Analects. There were 46 stone monuments, inscribed on both sides, and erected outside the Taixue Gate in Luoyang, the national capital. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to the "Xipingsekikyo" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…石経を見る者，筆写する者，日ごと1000余両の車がおしよせ，人びとは漢字の神聖な芸術性に驚嘆したという。いわゆる熹平（きへい）石経である。しばしば災異が現れたので政治について改革意見を上奏したところ，程璜（ていこう）らのために罪に落とされた。…

【石経】より

…　(1)漢石経　後漢末に経書本文に関する論争に決着をつけるため，蔡邕（さいよう）が定本を作り文字を書いて石に刻したと伝える。熹平4年(175)に起工し9年目に完成したので熹平石経といい，書体は隷書だけで書かれたので一字石経ともいう。内容は《易経》《尚書》《詩経(魯詩)》《大戴礼》《春秋》《公羊伝》《論語》の7経で，石碑は46，表裏両面に刻し国都洛陽の太学門外に立てた。…

※「熹平石経」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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