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Conversational Network in the Chinese Buddhist Canon [PDF]

Open 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
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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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Japanese Buddhist Canon Depicting Heavenly Sovereigns [PDF]

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.
Yuri Kuzhel, T. I. Breslavets
semanticscholar   +5 more sources

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

Religions, 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.
Wenqian Sun
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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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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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Early Doctrines and Concepts of Indian Materialism Preserved in the Chinese Buddhist Canon

Religions
This article tries to show how early elements of the Chinese Buddhist Canon can expand our understanding of the concepts and tenets of ancient Indian materialism.
Daisung Han, Wang-mo Seo
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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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Non-Violence, Asceticism, and the Problem of Buddhist Nationalism [PDF]

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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