With the holiday mood in the air and the sun blazing down in almost every part of our country, you might be one of those who does some reading to relax yourself after a draining session, playing ...

On May 11, 868 C.E., something remarkable happened in China that would revolutionise how historians understood the history of printing. The Buddhist scripture called the Diamond Sutra was printed and ...

To readers unimpressed with the Google eBookstore’s ancient sutras offerings (search for “sutras” and you get primarily books about yoga), the British Library has an antidote: the Diamond Sutra, the ...

Sutra is the Sanskrit word for a religious teaching or sermon, and Wang Jie’s Diamond Sutra opens (on the right of the scroll) with an image of the Buddha teaching a disciple named Subhuti. The core ...

If you love to read books, or have carried a book in a bag like a talisman when going outdoors, or left a book by your pillow and let its loving lull you to sleep, you might appreciate the importance ...

Writer and historian, Frances Wood, is head of the Chinese section at the British Library, where restoration work has been taking place on an edition of the world's oldest printed book - the Diamond ...