Editor's Note:
The Yunju Temple complex, home to the Yunju Temple Stone Scripture Museum, safeguards over 30,000 scripture-related cultural relics, including stone, paper and wooden scriptures. Among them, the most awe-inspiring are 1,122 volumes of Buddhist texts carved onto 14,278 stone slabs, along with 77 exposed stone tablets and pagodas. This monumental project spanned more than 1,300 years, from the Sui Dynasty (581-618) through successive dynasties, and contains over 35 million Chinese characters. (Photos: Chen Tao/GT)
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