Qisha Canon

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The Qisha Canon is a significant historical edition of the Chinese Buddhist scriptures, compiled and preserved at the Qisha (Qixia) Monastery and valued for its textual reliability and scholarly importance.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Buddhist scripture collection
Chinese Buddhist canon edition
associatedWith Chinese Buddhist textual history
canon formation in East Asian Buddhism
compiledAt Qisha Monastery
linked to: Karsha Monastery

Qixia Monastery
countryOfOrigin China
genre canonical collection
religious scripture
hasAlternativeName Qisha zang
Qixia Canon
linked to: Qixia Mountain area

Qixia zang
hasPart Abhidharma texts
Sutra texts
Vinaya texts
apocryphal scriptures
commentarial literature
hasResearchField Buddhist philology
East Asian religious history
philology
hasScholarlyUseAs reference text for establishing reliable readings
influenced modern editions of the Chinese Buddhist canon
isEditionOf Chinese Buddhist Canon
language Classical Chinese
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Jiangsu
Nanjing
mediaType woodblock print
notableFor preservation of early Chinese Buddhist texts
scholarly importance
textual reliability
preservedAt Qisha Monastery
linked to: Karsha Monastery

Qixia Monastery
religion Buddhism
script Chinese characters
subject Buddhist doctrine
Buddhist monastic discipline
Buddhist philosophy
timePeriod imperial China
tradition Chinese Buddhism
usedBy Buddhist studies scholars
historians of Buddhism
textual critics

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