Practical examples and theoretical reflections on the do's and don'ts of using digital tools for your study and research in African and Asian Studies.
The first time I attempted to integrate digital tools into my research, I had a common experience: I had my … Continue reading Seeing the Forest from the Trees: A Reflection on the Challenges of Digital Analysis in Buddhist 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
The Digital Orientalist 