'The Diamond Sutra', a Buddhist text produced in China in AD 868, is the world's earliest dated printed book. It was found in 1907 by the archaeologist Sir Marc Aurel Stein in a walled-up cave at the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas, near Dunhuang, in north-west China.
'The Diamond Sutra', a Buddhist text produced in China in AD 868, is the world's earliest dated printed book. It was found in 1907 by the archaeologist Sir Marc Aurel Stein in a walled-up cave at the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas, near Dunhuang, in north-west China.