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Stone Sutras in Yunju Temple

Updated: 2026-03-20 12:13 ( chinadaily.com.cn )

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If paper fades and words are lost, how do we carry memory forward?

At Beijing's Yunju Temple, predecessors answered that question by carving Buddhist scriptures into stone, one character at a time. Today, the temple preserves 14,278 stone sutras and more than 35 million characters, so that a civilization's knowledge will endure across the centuries.