The
Tripitaka Koreana (lit.
Goryeo Tripitaka) or
Palman Daejanggyeong ("Eighty-Thousand
Tripitaka") is a
Korean collection of the
Tripitaka (
Buddhist scriptures, and the Sanskrit word for "three baskets"), carved onto 81,258 wooden printing blocks in the 13th century. It is the world's most comprehensive and oldest intact version of Buddhist canon in
Hanja script, with no known errors or errata in the 52,330,152 characters which are organized in over 1496 titles and 6568 volumes. Each wood block measures 70 centimeters in width and 24 centimeters in length. The thickness of the blocks ranges from 2.6 to 4 centimeters and each weighs about three to four kilograms. The work is stored in
Haeinsa, a Buddhist temple in
South Gyeongsang province, in
South Korea.