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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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Unveiling the Sacred Journey: The Birth of a Woodblock-Printed Buddhist Canon in the Great Hangzhou Region of the Southern Song Dynasty

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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Transcribing the Sacred in the Printing Era: A Study of Handwritten Buddhist Canon during the Northern Song Dynasty

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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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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Veneration of the Buddhist Canon and National Integration in the Yuan Dynasty: Religious Policy and Cultural Convergence

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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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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Lurching Towards a Canon: Mahāyāna Sūtras in Khotanese Garb

Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2021
The concept of canon centers around authority. Assertions about canonicity both reflect and reshape the structure and the source of authority. In a Buddhist context, processes of canonization are highly fluid and complex, shedding light on the socio ...
Ruixuan Chen
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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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Non-Violence, Asceticism, and the Problem of Buddhist Nationalism

Genealogy, 2020
Contemporary Buddhist violence against minority Muslims in Myanmar is rightfully surprising: a religion with its particular moral philosophies of non-violence and asceticism and with its functional polytheism in practice should not generate genocidal ...
Yvonne Chiu
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