| Summary: | 碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 圖書資訊學系碩士班 === 106 === The history of ancient Chinese classics had a long-standing historical development and was very well-developed with the extremely early rise of the engraving. Since late Tang Dynasty, engraving printing had been developed rapidly and reached a matured and perfect condition until Song Dynasty. No matter it was an official carved publishing or a private and bookstore carved publishing, it was in a self-contained system and prosperous. In the process of development of woodblock printing, the circulation of Buddhist scriptures and the high demands of the majority of believers were also the most important keys to promoting forward of ancient Chinese typography.
Buddhism originated in India and was introduced to China about the Eastern Han Dynasty. A large number of Buddhist books were translated into Chinese characters with Buddhism into Chinese culture. The spread of Buddhist books was gradually evolved from handwritten to engraving. The Ming Dynasty published Buddhist books undertook the two left behind glorious results of Song and Yuan Dynasty. Based on this cornerstone, it pushed the publishing of the Buddhist sutras to another peak. During the Ming Dynasty, both official and civilian had launched several large-scale engraved printing of Buddhist Tripitaka(藏經), which had a far-reaching and widespread impacted on the spread and circulation of the Buddhist scriptures.
In this study, based on the Ming Dynasty Buddhist books collected by the National Central Library, is the main object of this essay. We have selected 10 publishing units that were more representative and 112 donators of Buddhist publishing books, as well as explored related historical facts, many of its cultural and publishing businesses during the Ming Dynasty. In terms of the publishing of Buddhist books, we discussed from three aspects: acquisitions, collation, and publication. According to the acquisitions categories, it is divided into monastic acquisitions and private acquisitions. In terms of the publishing activities of Buddhist books, we have comprehensively analyzed the characters and units related to Buddhist book engraved, based on four aspects: official publishing, monastic publishing, private publishing and cooperative publishing. All the purpose is to provide a more detailed historical exploration of the publishing of Buddhist books in the Ming Dynasty and obtain more in-depth perspectives and cognition.
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