Best Canadian Stories 2020

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The anthology of Buddhist teachings known as Jikji was printed in Heungdeoksa Temple in present-day South Korea in the Koryo dynasty. A notably early example of a text produced on metal movable-type, Jikji preceded Gutenberg’s forty-two-line Bible by seventy-eight years. The last copy of Baegun’s anthology survives in partial form in the Manuscrits Orientaux division of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.