Story of Kim Il Sung
Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)
Pyongyang, January 25 (KCNA) -- One day in June Juche 78 (1989), President Kim Il Sung visited the Myohyangsan History Museum.
After being briefed on the year and origin of the publication of the 80,000 wooden blocks of Complete Collection of Buddhist Scriptures, he asked an official why did they display only two scriptures.
The official could not give an immediate answer to the question because they had been interested only in preserving the collection long.
Reading the fact in his face, the President said the display of only two scriptures would probably make the visitors doubt or even deny the existence of the collection.
He then advised him to display all the scriptures with proper measures for their long preservation.
Afterwards a hall was allotted to exhibiting all of several thousand scriptures in glass-made bookcases to let the visitors see them.
As a result, the collection, which had long remained obscure, came to be seen as a national treasure.
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