Yongle Northern Canon

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The Yongle Northern Canon is a significant early Ming dynasty printed edition of the Chinese Buddhist canon, commissioned under the Yongle Emperor and notable for its historical and textual influence on East Asian Buddhism.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Buddhist scripture collection
Chinese Buddhist canon edition
Ming dynasty woodblock print edition
associatedWith imperial Buddhist projects of the Yongle reign
circulation distributed to major monasteries
commissionedBy Yongle Emperor NERFINISHED
compiledInDynasty Ming dynasty NERFINISHED
contains abhidharma texts
commentaries
ritual texts
sūtras
vinaya texts
countryOfOrigin China
culturalContext Chinese imperial Buddhism
dateOfProduction early 15th century
format woodblock print
genre Buddhist canon
hasSignificance important witness to Ming dynasty Buddhist textual culture
key source for East Asian Buddhist textual transmission
major early Ming printed canon
historicalPeriod early Ming period
influenced Japanese Buddhism
Korean Buddhism NERFINISHED
Vietnamese Buddhism NERFINISHED
later Chinese Buddhist canons
influencedBy earlier Chinese printed canons
language Classical Chinese
mediaType printed book
patron Yongle Emperor NERFINISHED
placeOfProduction Beijing NERFINISHED
preservationStatus partially extant
productionMethod woodblock printing
region East Asia
relatedTo Chinese Buddhist Canon NERFINISHED
Tripiṭaka NERFINISHED
religion Buddhism
script Chinese characters
sponsorType imperial sponsorship
subject Buddhist doctrine
Buddhist monastic discipline
Buddhist ritual practice
tradition East Asian Buddhism
Mahāyāna Buddhism NERFINISHED
usedIn monastic study
ritual recitation
scriptural reference
writingSystem Chinese

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Chinese Buddhist Canon majorEdition Yongle Northern Canon