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In Japan, the oldest printed book is the Diamond Sutra.

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The above statement is true.
In Japan, the oldest printed book is the Diamond Sutra. The Diamond Sutra is a brief and very popular Mahayana text, printed in AD 868 and containing six sheets of text and woodcut illustrations. As it includes 6000 words, the Diamond Sutra is comparatively short and is part of a large canon of sacred texts or sutras in Mahayana Buddhism. It is a branch of Buddhism most prevalent in Japan, China, Korea, and Southeast Asia. It is believed that Buddha directly dictated the Mahayana Sutras, and The Diamond Sutra is a direct dialogue between Buddha's pupil Subhati and his master. In East Asia, the Diamond Sutra is one of the most influential Mahayana Sutras and is prominent within the Chan tradition and the Heart Sutra.

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