Cheongju Early Printing Museum

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Cheongju Early Printing Museum
Cheongju City Printing Museum 2.JPG
Entrance area of ​​the museum
Data
place Jikjidae-ro 713,
Cheongju , South Korea Coordinates: 36 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  N , 127 ° 29 ′ 0 ″  EWorld icon
opening March 17, 1992
operator
Cheongju City Council
Website
On the premises of the museum: The Heungdeoksa

The Cheongju Early Printing Museum ( 청주고 인쇄 박물관 Cheongju Goinswae Bangmulgwan ) is a museum in the city of Cheongju , South Korea .

history

It was built from May 7, 1986 to March 17, 1992. Since then, the city of Cheongju has managed the building.

The museum is dedicated to Jikji , a book dealing with the teachings of the Zen of great Buddhist priests and written by the Buddhist monk Baegun ( 백운 ) during the Goryeo period (918-1392) a few years before the book was published in 1377 . Printing took place 78 years before Johannes Gutenberg , who is considered to be the inventor of book printing.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kim Jong-myung: Jikji: An Invaluable Text of Buddhism. In: The Korea Times . April 1, 2010, accessed November 17, 2018 .