Goryeo court commissions the Tripitaka Koreana
1246
On their island refuge of Ganghwa, the Korean court ordered the carving of over eighty thousand wooden printing blocks containing the entire Buddhist canon. Finished in 1251, the Tripitaka Koreana was both a prayer for divine protection against the Mongols and the most accurate Buddhist text collection in East Asia.
In context
Also in 1246 (3 other events on record)
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.