sudasana
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Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies, hobby game programmer
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Comment · 2 years ago
The British Library online scan is fantastic and well worth a close look. They also have pre-restoration images of the scroll. Seeing it in person is a little disappointing since they only unroll a bit of it at any time.
Comment · 2 years ago
This text only dates to the 6th century CE
Comment · 2 years ago
It's difficult to overstate the importance of this and similar primer texts from this period. Every literate person not only in China but elsewhere in the Sinic reading world would have memorized this as a child. You might not speak the same language, but you could both read and write this set of 1000 characters.
Was also used for a Keno-style game that spread across the Pacific! https://games.porg.es/games/pigeon-lottery/
Comment · 4 years ago
Josh is a great guy who's made tons of contributions to the community, not least of which is his REXPaint ASCII editor: https://www.gridsagegames.com/rexpaint/
Comment · 5 years ago
> In the 6th century, Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu claimed that "Silence is a source of great strength.”
6th century BCE, attributed.
Comment · 5 years ago
Tweetdeck also does not display trends unless you add a column for them.
Comment · 5 years ago
I've had this issue with recent versions of Pyinstaller and had to roll it back to version 3.4 to avoid it.
Comment · 5 years ago
REXPaint (https://www.gridsagegames.com/rexpaint/) is really excellent for this sort of thing.
Comment · 5 years ago
If you can share, what were some of Todai's concerns or reservations when this collaboration was first proposed?
Comment · 5 years ago
This is really great news, and I hope it inspires other libraries to partner directly with the Internet Archive.
Comment · 6 years ago
Still an error - just poor copyediting.