NANJING, CHINA - OCTOBER 20: (CHINA OUT) A worker carves a block for sutras printing at the Jinling Buddhism Publishing House on October 20, 2006 in Nanjing of Jiangsu Province, China. Jinling Buddhism Publishing House, built in 1866, is the first publishing organization which undertakes sutra printing, carving, collection, research and circulation in China. It still keeps the tradition of block-carving and watercolor block printing. The publishing of each sutra book involves over 30 procedures of handcraft. The house has printed over 100,000 sutras annually which are published world wide. Getty Images logo Getty Images 32 months ago

NANJING, CHINA - OCTOBER 20: (CHINA OUT) A worker carves a block for sutras printing at the Jinling Buddhism Publishing House on October 20, 2006 in Nanjing of Jiangsu Province, China. Jinling Buddhism Publishing House, built in 1866, is the first publishing organization which undertakes sutra printing, carving, collection, research and circulation in China. It still keeps the tradition of block-carving and watercolor block printing. The publishing of each sutra book involves over 30 procedures of handcraft. The house has printed over 100,000 sutras annually which are published world wide.

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