What are the characteristics of the Tibetan scriptures engraved printing

from the printing process, the printing of the book of the wood engraving board more fall just after the birch split into plates, smoked dry by the fire, put in sheep dung composted in the winter in order to over the sex, and then boiled, dried, planed so that it is not easy to crack, can be engraved. Before engraving, the paper will be cut according to the size of the board, the engraved Tibetan writing on the paper, and then pasted on the board. In order to make the handwriting reveal, paste the paper, if written with Tibetan paper can be wet cloth; If other paper, need to be coated with grease. The process of carving, can be carved with the progress of the plate, will be chiseled and engraved parts of the wet, not only can make the words clear, but also can make the engraved parts of the board soft. Not easy to damage. Carve the plate are horizontal book right line, long square strip, the number of horizontal words, vertical distance is larger, clear Shu eyes, easy to read and recite. After carving, the bookplate in ghee after a day of soaking in the sun, and then use a grass root called "Suba" boiled and scrubbed to dry. This bookplate is characterized by a long time to hide imperishable, often printed without damage, dazzling clean. Printing, the classics with "poisonous path grass" root skin made of extremely tough paper, not invaded by insects, not damaged over time.

The measurement of the scriptures on the specifications, the specifications of the woodblock printing plate Department of Buddhism according to the measurement of the scriptures to determine the long printing plate each length of 110 centimeters, the width of more than 70 centimeters, the thickness of about 3 centimeters; short printing plate each length of more than 70 centimeters, the width of more than 10 centimeters, the thickness of about 3 centimeters. Especially in the carving of the first volume of the Buddha and the Buddha painting, must be in strict accordance with the "statue measurement sutra", "Buddha said statue measurement sutra" and "painting measurement sutra" and other statue painting classics in the provisions of the procedures and rituals, these for the carvers to provide the statue of the Buddha in the creation of the human body must be the basic proportion, but also embodies the Tibetan buddhist carving and painting of the statue of the

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, required to carve, The carving, painting and statue-making artists must complete the painting, carving and statue-making according to the guidelines and performance of the program and order stated in the classics, and only in this way can they obtain the recognition of the monks and the approval of the believers, which is what the classics tell us, "as the law" and create.