English: In Buddhist communities in East Asia, the act of transcribing sutras is believed to generate merit for the copyist as well as for the sponsor and other living creatures. Transcribing sets of the Issaikyō (Sanskrit: Tripitaka)—the complete collection of Buddhist scriptures that numbers some four or five thousand volumes—was thus considered to bring great benefit. In the premodern era, numerous sets of the Issaikyō were made in Japan, China, and Korea and were commissioned by emperors through mass donations from devout commoners. This scroll is a fragment of the Issaikyō originally owned by Jingōji temple in Kyoto and has been identified as the Konponsetsu-issaibu-binaya, volume 7, book, 3, chapter 2. The text, consisting of information about clerical codes in India, is written in gold dust on indigo-dyed paper, with lines of silver. The frontispiece depicts the historical Buddha, Shakyamuni, giving a sermon at the foot of Vulture Peak (located today in Rajgir, Bihar, India), a sacred site where the Buddha gave many of his lectures.