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0071 - Age-Old Printing House For Buddhist Scripture. Btan-gyur (Tibetan ve...Front

Age-Old Printing House For Buddhist Scripture. Btan-gyur (Tibetan version of Buddhist Scripture) runs to 60,000 pages and costs 6,400 yuan. Piled in two stacks, it stands as high as a man. A truck can carry only two or three copies of such a voluminous book. Photo by Wang Jingye

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Place Tibet
Year 1984

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