{"id":52691,"date":"2019-07-01T16:37:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T22:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-buddhist-history-of-moveable-type-before-gutenberg-tricycle-org\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T08:49:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:49:01","slug":"the-buddhist-history-of-moveable-type-before-gutenberg-tricycle-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-buddhist-history-of-moveable-type-before-gutenberg-tricycle-org\/","title":{"rendered":"The Buddhist History of Moveable Type Before Gutenberg &#8211; Tricycle.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Forget Johannes Gutenberg. The first person to ever make a book printed with moveable type was named Choe Yun-ui.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/tricycle.org\/magazine\/buddhist-history-moveable-type\/\">tricycle.org\/magazine\/buddhist-history-moveable-type\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is an addendum to the western narrative that places Gutenberg and Germany at the center of the invention of moveable type and printing of books. I have been looking for a history that is inclusive of the inventions and innovations from Asia. This one is a starting point. I remain hopeful for further scholarly histories.<\/p>\n<p>The crux of this link is that Korea, China, and the Mongol empire played a role in humanity\u2019s exploration with the printed word organized on\/with metal, some 150 years before Gutenberg at an important inflection point. Those innovations may, or may not, have spread to Europe. There is where the gaps are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget Johannes Gutenberg. The first person to ever make a book printed with moveable type was named Choe Yun-ui. \u2014 Read on tricycle.org\/magazine\/buddhist-history-moveable-type\/ Here is an addendum to the western narrative that places Gutenberg and Germany at the center of the invention of moveable type and printing of books. I have been looking for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,32,2082,10],"tags":[332],"class_list":["post-52691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-books","category-communities","category-tumblr-archive","category-words","tag-typography","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-dHR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57010,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52691\/revisions\/57010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}