Practical examples and theoretical reflections on the do's and don'ts of using digital tools for your study and research in African, Oriental Studies..
Introduction Simon Daisley is an independent researcher of Kalmyk Buddhism and a digital heritage practitioner based in New Zealand. Through … Continue reading Reconstructing Kalmyk Buddhist Monasteries through Digital Modeling: An Interview with Simon Daisley from the Khurul Project
The Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC), a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving, organizing, and disseminating Buddhist literature based in Boston, … Continue reading Images of the BUDA: Digital Archives and the Future of Research Using Linked Open Data
What is the Documentation of Mongolian Monasteries The Documentation of Mongolian Monasteries is an online database featuring more than a … Continue reading Mapping A Thousand Buddhist Monasteries in Mongolia: Introducing the Digital Database “Documentation of Mongolian Monasteries”
In my previous post about the text-matching database BuddhaNexus, I corresponded with project co-director Orna Almogi, who described the promise … Continue reading Text-Matching at the Canonical Crossroads: An Introduction to BuddhaNexus (Part II)
BuddhaNexus is a text-matching database with visualization capabilities that draws its data from Buddhist literary corpora in Pāli, Sanskrit, Tibetan, … Continue reading Text-Matching at the Canonical Crossroads: An Introduction to BuddhaNexus (Part I)
The Chinese Buddhist canon contains canonical Buddhist literature as recognized in East Asia. Early practitioners interacted with one of the … Continue reading A Digital Introduction to the Chinese Buddhist Canon
