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The Chinese Buddhist Canon and Other Buddhist Texts

open access: yes, 2018
Although Buddhism is now seen as a scriptural religion, its earliest oral transmission to various language communities necessitated the use of translation, and the tolerance of translation in Buddhism is demonstrated by the many languages and scripts in which excavated early fragments of texts were written.
Peter Francis Kornicki
exaly   +3 more sources

Conversational Network in the Chinese Buddhist Canon

open access: yesOpen Linguistics, 2016
Abstract 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 network that visualizes the speakers, the listeners and their degree of ...
Lee John, Wong Tak-sum
exaly   +4 more sources

History of the Buddhist Canon

open access: yes, 2010
There are a number of canonical collections in Buddhism rather than a single fixed corpus of texts that all Buddhists regard as “the canon.” The term Tripiṭaka (Sanskrit)/Tipiṭaka (Pāli) refers to the Three Baskets or groups of texts that ideally constitute a canon, which are the Vinaya, Sutta (Pāli)/Sūtra (Sanskrit), and Abhidhamma (Pāli)/Abhidharma ...
Daniel Veidlinger
openaire   +2 more sources

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

open access: yesReligions, 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, Zhang, Y.
exaly   +2 more sources

Texts and Ritual: Buddhist Scriptural Tradition of the Stūpa Cult and the Transformation of Stūpa Burial in the Chinese Buddhist Canon

open access: yesReligions, 2019
Chinese translations of Buddhist sūtras and Chinese Buddhist literature demonstrate how stūpas became acknowledged in medieval China and how clerics and laypeople perceived and worshiped them.
Wen Sun
exaly   +2 more sources

The Philosophy of Desire in the Buddhist Pali Canon [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
David Webster explores the notion of desire as found in the Buddhist Pali Canon. Beginning by addressing the idea of a 'paradox of desire', whereby we must desire to end desire, the varieties of desire that are articulated in the Pali texts are examined.
Webster, David
core   +6 more sources

The Buddhist Poetry of the Great Kamo Priestess [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Senshi was born in 964 and died in 1035, in the Heian period of Japanese history (794–1185). Most of the poems discussed here are what may loosely be called Buddhist poems, since they deal with Buddhist scriptures, practices, and ideas.
Kamens, Edward
core   +1 more source

Japanese Buddhist Canon Depicting Heavenly Sovereigns

open access: yes, 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.
T. I. Breslavets, Yu. L. Kuzhel
core   +1 more source

Buddhist and Daoist Canon Metadata

open access: yes, 2018
Detailed bibliographic information describing the Buddhist and Daoist Canons, used for contents in Docusky database. Buddhist Canon metadata produced by Dharma Drum Institute and CBETA.
Stanley-Baker, Michael   +4 more
core   +1 more source

The Great Tibetan Translator: Life and Works of rNgog Blo ldan shes rab (1059–1109) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Second only to the famous Rin chen bzang po (958–1055) in receiving the title of a “Great Translator” (lo chen) during the period of the “Later Propagation” (phyi dar) of Buddhism in Tibet, rNgog lo tsā ba Blo ldan shes rab (or rNgog lo) was one of the ...
Kramer, Ralf
core   +1 more source

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