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Chinese
Books and Scrolls
On March 14, 2000,
staff at the Harvard-Yeching Library, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, reported the theft of forty-one rare
Chinese books and two scrolls from the Rare Book
Room. The books, covering a variety of topics, date
from the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Quing Periods of
Chinese history (960 to 1911 A.D.)
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Six Paramitas
Collected Sutra in eight chapters; Woodblock
edition from the Wanshou Tripitaka printed at
the Dongchan Dengjue Cloister of Fuzhou, dated
1085 |
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Guangyun
Rhyme Dictionary in five chapters;
Woodblock edition from the Nanshan Academy,
dated 1366 |
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The Expanded
Compendium of Content for Composing Poetry in
thirty chapters; Woodblock edition of the Jingjiang Academy, dated 1354 |
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| Sayings of
Chan Master Yu of the Fachang Meditation Cloister
in Fenning, Hongzhou in one chapter and Gatha
in one chapter; Woodblock edition, dated
to the Song Period (960 to 1279) |
Essentials
of Military Leadership in two chapters;
Woodblock edition by Meng Feng, dated 1522 |
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New Account
of Tales of the World in eight chapters; Four-color
Woodblock edition by Ling Yingchu, dated to
the Ming Period (1368 to 1644) |
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Portion of the
Jingang Sutra handwritten scroll, dated
to the Tang Period (618 to 906) |
If you have any information
regarding this theft, please contact your local
FBI Office.
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