The Rough Guide to Korea, Norbert Paxton, pp. 184, Penguin, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4053-8929-7, ... These doctrines have been carved onto more than eighty thousand wooden blocks, known as the Tripitaka Koreana (see box below), and remain visible through the vertical wooden rungs of the buildings that house them ...
Korea, Ray Bartlett, Rob Whyte, Martin Robinson, Ray Bartlett, Rob Whyte, pp. 196, Lonely Planet, 2007, ISBN 978-1-74104-558-1, ... Tripitaka literally means 'three baskets', representing the three divisions of Buddhism: the Sutra (scriptures), Vinaya (laws) and the Abhidharma (treatises). The Tripitaka Koreana has been preserved on more than 80,000 beautifully carved woodblocks, which took 16 years to complete ...
