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Song gaoseng zhuan

This is a critical, annotated and digitalized edition of the wellknown Song gaoseng zhuan (《宋高僧傳》, SGSZ) from the Song dynansty. All names of place, person, and difficult terms are annotated, meanwhile databases and maps are linked to enhance understanding on event, person and place as recorded in biographies. With this latest version, readers may easily trace footprints of an eminent monk, or track sources of a biography.

Feature:

Texts are dynamically link to maps, while keywords are further annotated. The Taishō text was collated with the Qisha version《磧砂藏》, as well as The Jiutangshu《舊唐書》, Xintangshu《新唐書》, Quantangwen《全唐文》and fragments of Tang inscription.

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This is a critical, annotated and digitalized edition of the wellknown Song gaoseng zhuan (《宋高僧傳》, SGSZ) from the Song dynansty. All names of place, person, and difficult terms are annotated, meanwhile databases and maps are linked to enhance understanding on event, person and place as recorded in biographies. With this latest version, readers may easily trace footprints of an eminent monk, or track sources of a biography.

Content:

This project marked up the dynamic connection between person-person, person-place and person-date as three nexus points for the visualization of text. On top of the detail annotation to the text and employment of multifaceted data, not only reading is smoother than the printed copy, mistakes were also corrected. This is the best digital version of SGSZ for the time being.