Tianjin kejingchu 天津刻經處

Tiānjīn Scriptural Press 天津刻經處

Established 1919 in Tiānjīn 天津 Defunct in 1937?

Notable Associates: Xú Wèirú 徐蔚如 (founder)

The Tiānjīn Scriptural Press 天津刻經處 was a scriptural press 刻經處 founded by Xú Wèirú 徐蔚如 in 1919.

History

The press printed something on the order of two thousand different juàn 卷 worth of scriptures. The Press' emphases were 1) Huáyán 華嚴, and 2) Texts related to the Vinaya. At one point it published a periodical associated with a school run by Hóngyī 弘一.

After the founding of the PRC, the woodblocks belonging to this press, like those of a number of other presses, were relocated to the Jīnlíng Scriptural Press 金陵刻經處 in Nánjīng 南京.

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References

• Shì Dōngchū 釋東初. Zhōngguó Fójiào jìndài shǐ 中國佛教近代史 (A History of Early Contemporary Chinese Buddhism), in Dōngchū lǎorén quánjí 東初老人全集 (Complete Collection of Old Man Dongchu), vols. 1-2. Taipei: Dongchu, 1974 P. 1.250.
• Yú Língbō 于凌波, ed. Xiàndài Fójiào rénwù cídiǎn 現代佛教人物辭典 (A Dictionary of Modern Buddhist Persons), 2 vols. Taipei: Foguang, 2004. Pp. 1:836b-838a. (Entry for Xú Wèirú 徐蔚如)