Passages on the Nembutsu Selected in the Primal Vow was compiled at the request of the Chancellor, an ordained layman (Lord Tsukinowa Kanezane, Buddhist name Ensho).
Now the count is compiled at the Essex Town Hall, which on the day of the count becomes a pot-luck gathering for birders about 4 p.m.
Commentaries continue to be compiled at the present time; Muslim modernists, for example, have used them as a vehicle for their reformist ideas.
A Radio 1 spokesman said: "The song is not currently on our playlist and, as the chart is compiled at the end of the week, we cannot say what will be in the Official Chart on Sunday".
And the number could rise again if the economy suffered another downturn, a prospect that seems increasingly likely amid all the grim data that has surfaced in the weeks since the list was compiled at the end of the June.
The catalog, named in honour of American astronomer Henry Draper and financed through an endowment by his widow, was compiled at the Harvard College Observatory under the direction of Edward Charles Pickering, mostly by Annie Jump Cannon and Antonia Caetana Maury.
The raw data, which ran into petabytes, were collected on hard disks and travelled by air, sea and land to be compiled at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Haystack Observatory in Westford.
To make the network efficient, the data would be broken into small packets, each carrying a code indicating where it came from and where it was supposed to end up so that a complete document could be compiled at the receiving computer.
