The Kaibao Canon (開寶藏), also known as the Shu edition (蜀版), since it was printed in Sichuan, and sometimes known as the Northern Song canon (北宋刊経) was a woodblock printed collection of Buddhist texts produced in the

Northern Song dynasty The Song dynasty ( ) was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 960 to 1279. The dynasty was founded by Emperor Taizu of Song, who usurped the throne of the Later Zhou dynasty and went on to conquer the rest of the Ten Kingdoms, endin ...

. The Kaibao Canon was lost but formed the basis for other canons, notably the

Tripitaka Koreana The is a Korean collection of the ( Buddhist scriptures), carved onto 81,258 wooden printing blocks in the 13th century. They are currently located at the Buddhist temple Haeinsa, in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. It is the oldest ...

. We also know its contents, since it was based on the Kaiyuan Shijiao Lu (開元釋教錄), which is included in the

Taishō Tripiṭaka The ''Taishō Tripiṭaka'' (; Japanese: ''Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō''; " Taishō Revised Tripiṭaka") is a definitive edition of the Chinese Buddhist canon and its Japanese commentaries used by scholars in the 20th century. The name is abbr ...

. It was the first printed edition of a

Chinese Buddhist canon The Chinese Buddhist canon refers to a traditional collection of Chinese language Buddhist texts which are the central canonical works of East Asian Buddhism. The traditional term for the canon is Great Storage of Scriptures ().Jiang Wu, "The ...

, and effectively closed the canon. Karen C. Lang (2010; first edition 2007). "Non-canonical and apocryphal literature" in Damien Keown and Charles S. Prebish (eds.) ''Encyclopedia of Buddhism''. New York: Routledge. It was begun in 971 and completed in 983.

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