A Multi-lingual Database of the Lotus-Sutra
This project is a collaboration among the late Dr. Toda Hirofumi (戶田宏文), Dr. Hitomo Kenyo (三友健容) of Rissho University, Japan (日本立正大學) and CHIBS (中華佛研所). It was funded by Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (蔣經國國際學術交流基金會). With the Chinese edition of Saddharmapuṇḍarīka as the main theme, numerous manuscript sources were compiled, studied along side and thus maintain as a digital database. Meanwhile, textual comparison between Chinese edition, Sanskrit and other editions were performed. Aiming to serve as a tool for research and teaching activities of current scholarship in this global settings of digital era.
- URL : http://sdp.chibs.edu.tw/
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Fulltext search, comparation of manuscript sources and textual organization.
About:
This project is a collaboration among the late Dr. Toda Hirofumi (戶田宏文), Dr. Hitomo Kenyo (三友健容) of Rissho University, Japan (日本立正大學) and CHIBS (中華佛研所). It was funded by Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (蔣經國國際學術交流基金會). With the Chinese edition of Saddharmapuṇḍarīka as the main theme, numerous manuscript sources were compiled, studied along side and thus maintain as a digital database. Meanwhile, textual comparison between Chinese edition, Sanskrit and other editions were performed. Aiming to serve as a tool for research and teaching activities of current scholarship in this global settings of digital era.
Content:
The database comprises of Sanskrit manuscripts and fragments of Saddharmapuṇḍarīka discovered in Nepal,Tibet, Central Asia and Kashmir (Gilgit). With texts from Nepalese manuscripts Archive, Otani (大谷大學) Collection, Stein and Hoernle Collection, Libraries at Cambridge University etc., textual organization were compared and research bibliography was included.
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