The Royal Wish Sutra "Buddha's Explanation of the Fifty Schools Sutra Volume II" [Introduction]
Nara period, Japan, the second year of the gods and guardians of Jingyun (768), ink and pen on paper, vertical 27 cm, horizontal 1056 cm, this volume of "Royal Wish Sutra" is 1056 cm long, 20 sheets of paper, a total of 527 lines, is the old Shoso-in Tibetan. At the end of the volume, there is the inscription "Mingdu Fifty School Books", and the upper volume is still in Zhengcangyuan. According to the Catalogue of Shoso-in Holy Words Zarajing Sutra published in 1930, the “Shenhu Jingyun 2 Years Royal Wish Sutra” and “Tianping 12 Years Royal Wish Sutra” can be regarded as the double gems of scripture writing in the Nara period. This work belongs to one of the scattered volumes of the "Sacred Guardian Jingyun Second Year Royal Wish Sutra". It is called Emperor Toku (718-770) to pray for the blessing of Emperor Shengmu (701-756), and it was written exclusively by the palace. Transcribed. This work has high integrity and superb writing, which is of great help to the study of the development of scripture writing in the Nara period. It can also be used as a comparison of the writing of the scriptures in the Tang Dynasty, from which we can see the influence of the culture and taste of East Asian leaders during the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
