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The work presented here was supported by the European Research Council (ERC) under the Horizon 2020 program (Advanced Grant agreement No 741884), and its Open Access publication was made possible through its financial support.
Andrew West graciously assisted in setting the Chinese type, by locating rare characters within his BabelHan font and designing several previously unavailable characters.
Cover illustration: The image presents a folio from the Second KoryÅ edition of the Da zangjing, which contains the opening passages of the preface to the Da Baoji jing collection, the Chinese MahÄratnakÅ«á¹a, attributed to the Tang emperor Xuanzong (r. 712â756). The image is from the âArchives of Buddhist Cultureâ section of the Dongguk University website (Seoul, South Korea).
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ISSN 2772-2910
ISBN 978-90-04-69295-4 (hardback)
ISBN 978-90-04-70680-4 (e-book)
DOI 10.1163/9789004706804
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