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		selimthegrim on April 9, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Buddhist history of moveable type before Guten... - Uyghurs were Manichaeans too - pretty sure the neighboring Tangut (Western Xia) had printed books too (maybe courtesy of the Uyghurs?) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auspicious_Tantra_of_All-Rea...

sammalloy on April 9, 2021 [–]

It seems the difference is that the Korean Jikji (1377) is considered the oldest extant book printed with movable metal type, while the Tangut book (1139?) found in China is the oldest extant book printed using wooden movable type.

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