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Japanese Buddhist Canon Depicting Heavenly Sovereigns

Ежегодник Япония, 2022
In the Japanese Buddhist canon, the heavenly sovereigns belong to the fourth class of Buddhist deities — after the Buddhas, bodhisattvas, and light kings. They are the largest group.
Yu. L. Kuzhel, T. I. Breslavets
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Transcribing the Sacred in the Printing Era: A Study of Handwritten Buddhist Canon during the Northern Song Dynasty [PDF]

Religions, 2023
In an era marked by the advent of advanced printing technology during the Northern Song period, the tradition of transcribing the Buddhist canon endured rather than promptly fading away.
Yuyu Zhang
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Unveiling the Sacred Journey: The Birth of a Woodblock-Printed Buddhist Canon in the Great Hangzhou Region of the Southern Song Dynasty [PDF]

Religions, 2023
This article delves into the literature sources and historical origins of the initial section of the Qisha Canon, a renowned block-printed Chinese Buddhist Canon carved in the greater Hangzhou region during the Song and Yuan dynasties. The existing first
Zhouyuan Li
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Veneration of the Buddhist Canon and National Integration in the Yuan Dynasty: Religious Policy and Cultural Convergence [PDF]

Religions
Inheriting a tradition of religious tolerance from the Inner Asian Steppe, the Mongol Yuan Empire elevated Buddhism to a pivotal role in unifying its multiethnic and culturally diverse domain, with Tengriist ideology serving as the political foundation ...
Xiaobai Li
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Chinese Buddhist Canon Digitization: A Review and Prospects

Religions
The digitization of the Chinese Buddhist Canon represents a transformative shift in Buddhist textual scholarship, enabling unprecedented access to and analysis of one of East Asia’s most extensive scriptural collections.
Xu Zhang
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Conversational Network in the Chinese Buddhist Canon

Open Linguistics, 2016
This article describes a method to analyze characters in a literary text by considering their verbal interactions. This method exploits techniques from computational linguistics to extract all direct speech from a treebank, and to build a conversational ...
Lee John, Wong Tak-sum
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Digital Buddhist Canon in East Asia

Humanitarian Vector, 2019
O. Rinchinov
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Merit-Making Through Printing, Distributing and Reading Buddhist Canon in the Late Ming Dynasty

Religions
In the Chinese Buddhist tradition, copying and printing sacred texts is considered a form of merit-making, or virtuous activity. One reason for the printing and circulation of books in the Buddhist tradition is the belief that one can gain merits.
Darui Long
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Alternative Lineages: The Shisong lü 十誦律 in Japanese Ancient Manuscript Buddhist Canons [PDF]

Religions
Traditional studies on Chinese Buddhism have largely relied on printed canons from the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Goryeo dynasties. However, recent discoveries of Dunhuang and Turfan manuscripts, along with growing recognition of Nihon kosha issaikyō ...
Limei Chi
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Language and Consciousness in Early Buddhist Thought: On the Early Reflections on the Theme of Language and the Perception of Reality in the Pāli Canon

Philosophies
In this paper, the Buddhist view on language and its implications for perception and cognition will be analyzed. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that archaic Buddhism, as documented in the suttas of the Pāli Canon, already presents a well ...
Federico Divino
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