“Jikji,” whose full title is “Baegun Hwasang Chorok Buljo Jikji Simche Yojeol” (Master Baegun’s Excerpts from the Buddhas’ and Patriarchs’ Direct Pointing to the Essence of Mind), is ...

"Jikji Simche Yojeol," or simply known as "Jikji," is the world's oldest surviving book printed with movable metal type. The Buddhist document was published during the Goryeo Kingdom in 1377 ...

There is a popular saying in Cheongju, South Korea, that “anyone who does not know Jikji is a foreign spy.” The word appears on every street sign, and has been appended to the names of cafes ...

The Jikji is one of the first books printed with movable metal type. Although it is a religious text , as is the Gutenberg bible, its importance is that it represents the start of the exponential ...

The Prize was created to commemorate the inscription of the Buljo jikji simche yojeol – the oldest known book of moveable metal print in the world – on the Memory of the World International Register.

UNESCO is now inviting nominations for the 10th edition of the UNESCO/Jikji Memory of the World Prize. Member States, in consultation with their National Commissions, are invited to submit nominations ...

The American University in Cairo’s (AUC) Libraries and Learning Technologies (LLT) has been awarded the 2022 UNESCO/Jikji Memory of the World Prize for the decades of preservation work carried out by ...

Jikji was listed in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register in 2001. Brought to France at the end of the 19th century, one sole copy of Jikji is currently stored at the National Library of France.

Meeting Bhattathiri a day after the announcement of the Jikji international award for the best calligraphy work instituted by the South Korean government in memory of their first printed book ...

UNESCO is now receiving nominations for the 9th edition of the UNESCO/Jikji Memory of the World Prize. Member States, in consultation with their National Commissions, as well as international ...