Protecting the Dharma through Calligraphy in Tang China - A Study of the Ji Wang shengjiao xu ????? The Preface to the Buddhist Scriptures Engraved on Stone in Wang Xizhi’s Collated Characters

This is a study of the earliest and finest collated inscription in the history of Chinese calligraphy, the Ji Wang shengjiao xu ????? (Preface to the Sacred Teaching Scriptures Translated by Xuanzang in Wang Xizhi’s Collated Characters), which was erected on January 1, 673.