The Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum's Kulturhistorische Sammlung holds a Hyakumantō Dhāraṇī in a miniature pagoda, containing a scroll from a dedication by Empress Shōtoku dated to 770.
Sources
- Begegnung mit dem frühneuzeitlichen Japan (blog.dnb.de)
- https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-asian-studies/article/abs/hyakumanto-darani-and-the-origins-of-printing-in-eighthcentury-japan/CFF689ABB89B176CC9355D2FE7E8DAA6 (cambridge.org)
- https://news.library.mcgill.ca/a-hyakumanto-dharani-among-the-earliest-surviving-examples-of-printed-text/ (news.library.mcgill.ca)
- https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667586 (loc.gov)
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