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Silk Road Buddhist cultural atlas database

Apr 24, 2021 | gis

Silk Road Buddhist cultural atlas database

The “Silk Road: Spatiotemporal Platform of Sino-India Cultural Exchange” features Event Orientated Route, TimeMap, Literature, Research, and Investigation Database etc. The spatiotemporal aspects of historical events and results of textual studies are presented through interactive Google Map and TimeLine. Furthermore, Buddhist literatures, history of Chinese Buddhism and geographical features of the Silk Road are integrated in the interface which consists of maps, photos & videos, indexes and related texts. These three-dimensional time-space visual representations have satellite-positioned those land and sea pilgrimage routes which were traced by Chinese monks travelling westward and foreign monks coming into China, including “Westward Pilgrimage Routes of Three Masters, 2011”, “Western Regions Pilgrimage Route of 61Masters, 2012”, “Spatiotemporal Database of the Record of Travel to the Tang in Search of the Dharma (Nyūtō guhō junrai kōki),2014”, “Spatiotemporal Database of the Biographies of Five Japanese Monks who Went to Tang, 2015”. The objective of this project is to create an online platform with comprehensive pictures on Silk Road and Buddhist culture.

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This database consists of two projects, namely “The World of Xuanzang and the Silk Road” and “Silk Road: Spatiotemporal Platform of Sino-India Cultural Exchange”
“Digital Museum — The World of Xuanzang and Silk Road” contains research articles, dictionaries, historical materials of art & image, as well as content from A Record of the Tang`s Western Regions and Journey to the West. “Silk Road: Spatiotemporal Platform of Sino-India Cultural Exchange” offers spatiotemporal interactive maps to visualise interactions among person, event, time, location and object, it is a platform for Silk Road studies and researches.

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The “Silk Road: Spatiotemporal Platform of Sino-India Cultural Exchange” features Event Orientated Route, TimeMap, Literature, Research, and Investigation Database etc. The spatiotemporal aspects of historical events and results of textual studies are presented through interactive Google Map and TimeLine. Furthermore, Buddhist literatures, history of Chinese Buddhism and geographical features of the Silk Road are integrated in the interface which consists of maps, photos & videos, indexes and related texts. These three-dimensional time-space visual representations have satellite-positioned those land and sea pilgrimage routes which were traced by Chinese monks travelling westward and foreign monks coming into China, including “Westward Pilgrimage Routes of Three Masters, 2011”, “Western Regions Pilgrimage Route of 61Masters, 2012”, “Spatiotemporal Database of the Record of Travel to the Tang in Search of the Dharma (Nyūtō guhō junrai kōki),2014”, “Spatiotemporal Database of the Biographies of Five Japanese Monks who Went to Tang, 2015”. The objective of this project is to create an online platform with comprehensive pictures on Silk Road and Buddhist culture.

Buddhist Temples in Taiwan

Apr 24, 2021 | gis, taiwan

Buddhist Temples in Taiwan

This project employed Geographic Information System (GIS) to integrate and combine information from Taiwanese Buddhist Digital Database (台灣佛教文獻資料庫), Digital Musuem of Buddhism in Taiwan (台灣佛教數位博物館), etc., for advanced studies and research work on the history and geography of Taiwanese Buddhism.

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The geographic information platform of Taiwanese Buddhism, an integration of texts, databases and GIS technology.

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This project employed Geographic Information System (GIS) to integrate and combine information from Taiwanese Buddhist Digital Database (台灣佛教文獻資料庫), Digital Musuem of Buddhism in Taiwan (台灣佛教數位博物館), etc., for advanced studies and research work on the history and geography of Taiwanese Buddhism.

Buddhist biographical literature

Apr 24, 2021 | gis

Buddhist biographical literature

Feature : TEI marked up biographical collections, which altogether contains more than 3200 hagio-biographies of Chinese Buddhist monks and nuns.

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This project presents hagio-biography datasets in three views interface:

1. Geographic Information System (GIS) of Buddhist Biographies Dataset  Link →

The GIS (Geographic Information System) view of biography reader. Read biographies on the left panel, follow links over person, name of place and dates for more information based on the Authority Databases.

2. Social Network Visualization of Buddhist Biographies Dataset  Link →

This Social Network view was based on all nexus points that recorded events involving two or more actors. Click on a person node to display information from the person authority database on the right. Click on a link to gather information about the nexus point, links to the text from CBETA, and the GIS interface. The scope of the visualization can be filtered according to person involved, time and connection.

3. Timeline view of Buddhist Biographies Dataset      Link →

This Timeline view is based on the Authority Database and the recorded date from hagio-biography texts. Clink on a person`s timline to show his/her complete biography. Other than name, social network connection and GIS view of hagio-biographies, clicking on a person`s life span to lights up all actors which whom the person has met, according to the nexus points of the dataset.

Song gaoseng zhuan

Jan 12, 2021 | gis, reference

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.

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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.

About：

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.

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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.