Korean Buddhism, history-condition-art : three lectures (1918)
Starr, Frederick, 1858-1933 · Boston : Marshall Jones Co. · leaf 116
ers. Do the Koreanmonks know the Sanskrit language? Farfrom it. I doubt whether there are a half-dozen priests in all Korea who know any-thing whatever of the language. At every temple one may secure tarani.A tarani is a sheet of paper with somethingprinted on it in red from a wood-block.The… … o M PL, QW!> in 6 CONDITION supplied for burial with the dead. When aman is burned or buried a tarani is placedwith his body. We secured them fromalmost every monastery visited. Perhapsno priest in Korea can read them. Wesaw, however, at one monastery, an oldbook concerning tarani, and it seems…
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