Digital Humanities and Buddhism
Description
IDH Religion provides a series of short introductions to specific areas of study at the intersections of digital humanities and religion, offering an overview of current methodologies, techniques, tools, and projects as well as defining challenges and opportunities for further research. This volume explores DH and Buddhism in four sections: Theory and Method; Digital Conservation, Preservation and Archiving; Digital Analysis; Digital Resources. It covers themes such as language processing, digital libraries, online lexicography, and ethnographic methods.
Erratum: Unfortunately there is a mistake in the print version in the last paragraph of page 14. READ is an open-source software system developed by a team consisting of Stefan Baums at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Andrew Glass in Seattle, Ian McCrabb at the University of Sydney and Stephen White in Venice (https://github.com/readsoftware/read).
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- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Past, Present, and Future of Digital Buddhology
- Part One: Theoretical and Methodological Issues
- Computational Linguistics and the Buddhist Corpus
- An Ethnographic Method for the Digital Humanistic Study of Buddhism
- Part Two: Digital Conservation, Presentation and Archiving
- Ontologizing Buddhist Digital Archives: Two Case Studies
- Digital Encoding, Preservation, Translation, and Research for Tibetan Buddhist Texts
- The Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Project: Problems and Possibilities
- Digital Libraries of Lao and Northern Thai Manuscripts
- The Digital Dictionary of Buddhism and CJKV-English Dictionary: A Brief History
- Part Three: Digital Analysis of Buddhist Documents
- Mapping Religious Practice in the Eminent Monks: Theoretical and Methodological Reflections
- A Context-Free Method for the Computational Analysis of Buddhist Texts
- Digital Filiation Studies: Phylogenetic Analysis in the Study of Tibetan Buddhist Canonical Texts
- Appendix: Selected Digital Humanities Resources
- Index
