Although this Tripitaka was a phantom Tripitaka as well as a Jin edition, the 12 volumes of the Kitai edition were discovered in 1982 from a Buddha statue located at the wooden tower in Bukkyu-ji Temple, an old temple at Yingxian, in Shanxi Province.
この大蔵経も金版と同様に幻の大蔵経であったが、1982年に山西省の応県にある古刹、仏宮寺の木塔に安置された仏像内から、12巻の契丹版が発見された。