If you visit the Pohyon Temple in Mt Myohyang, after some antique-looking buildings you can see a blue tiled building where the 80 000 Blocks of the Complete Collection of Buddhist Scriptures is preserved.

   The 80 000 Blocks of the Complete Collection of Buddhist Scriptures is a Buddhist encyclopedia which is a collection of voluminous Buddhist Scriptures of Koryo period and it is a priceless treasure which shows the development of publishing and printing culture of that society.

   Under the complicated history of the disturbances of war, the existence of these Buddhist Scriptures was ignored and they were preserved in a dark depository. But under the wise leadership of President Kim Il Sung they are finely being preserved at the original preservation place displaying its existence.

   One day in October Juche 38 (1949), the President visited Mt Myohyang and said though the 80 000 Blocks of the Complete Collection of Buddhist Scriptures was for preaching Buddhism, the fact that our ancestors had made about 80 000 wooden blocks and published thousands of bulky complete collection of Buddhist Scriptures was a great pride of Korea and nation.

   These Buddhist Scriptures were preserved in Kumgang Hermitage during the Fatherland Liberation War. Later, the Taeung Hall of the Pohyon Temple in Mt Myohyang which had been destroyed during the war was restored and preservation hall of the 80 000 Blocks of the Complete Collection of Buddhist Scriptures was built in there. Thus the Buddhist Scriptures were displayed there.

   At the Conference of Concerned Staff for Building Myohyangsan Pleasure Park held in April Juche 70 (1981), the President instructed to reconstruct the Archives where the Buddhist Scriptures were formerly preserved and to display the scriptures there. And at the same time he taught ways and means to display the Buddhist Scriptures without a single damage in details.

   In June Juche 78 (1989), the President visited Mt Myohyang again and looked around the Archives of the 80 000 Blocks of the Complete Collection of Buddhist Scriptures.

   At that time while the officials of Myohyangsan History Museum were displaying the Buddhist Scriptures they were more concerned in preserving the Buddhist Scriptures for a long time than showing them to visitors. So they only displayed 2 volumes and kept the rest of the books in the Archives No 2.

   The President said that if they exhibited only two volumes people who visit there would doubt that they exhibited only two books because they didn’t have other volumes. He said that even some people would think it is not true that the 80 000 Blocks of the Complete Collection of Buddhist Scriptures exist.

   He continued that officials concerned seemed to worry that if they show all the volumes, they might not preserve the Buddhist Scriptures for a long time but it would not be a problem if they took measure well. He said that they could preserve it for a long time if they make some bookcase with thick glass and seal it up with argon after the Buddhist Scriptures is put inside.

   On that day the President instructed to make a big glass cabinet similar to bookcase in the current building and to put the Buddhist Scriptures in there. He continued that they should seal it up with argon so that people could see full volumes of the Buddhist Scriptures and instructed means in detail to rebuild the exhibition hall while drawing square plan on his own hand.

   Thus the preservation hall was refurbished so that all visitors could see several thousand volumes of Buddhist Scriptures and it could be handed down without a single discoloration.

   Certainly President Kim Il Sung is a tender-hearted teacher and father of the nation who value and glorify every vestiges and relics permeated with wisdom and soul of the ancestors.