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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 ...

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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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Early Doctrines and Concepts of Indian Materialism Preserved in the Chinese Buddhist Canon

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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, Wangmo Seo
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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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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.
Yu. L. Kuzhel, T. I. Breslavets
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The Chinese Buddhist Canon and Other Buddhist Texts

, 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 ...
Peter Francis Kornicki
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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

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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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Religious Governance and Canon Compilation: The Inclusion of the Fozu Tongji in the Ming Buddhist Canon

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The Fozu tongji 佛祖統紀 (Comprehensive Records of the Buddha and Patriarchs), compiled by the Tiantai monk Zhipan 志磐 during the Song dynasty, is a seminal work in the history of historiography.
Haochen Lian
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From Nationalism to Transnationalism: The Compilation and Publication of the Puhui Canon (Puhuizang)

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The publication of the Puhui Canon began in 1943, was interrupted in 1955, and was ultimately completed in 1998, spanning three significant historical periods: the Chinese War of Resistance Against Japan, the Chinese Civil War (1945–1949), and the early ...
Ting Shen
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