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From Text to Image to Analysis: Visualization of Chinese Buddhist Canon

This presentation is based on software interface development by a team at the University of California, Berkeley. The database which was used for this technology is the digital version of the Korean Buddhist canon written in Chinese characters. The tool shown was built with the help of a two year grant of support (2007-2009) from the National Science Foundation. International collaboration has included the Institute of Tripitaka Koreana in Seoul who provided scanned images of rubbings taken from the original printing blocks at Hae-in Monastery. The software metadata is based on the previous publication The Korean Buddhist Canon: A Descriptive Catalogue (Lancaster, 1979).1 A digital version of this catalogue was made by Charles Muller of Tokyo University who has made it freely available on the internet (Muller, 2004).2 The project has been a part of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) and received support from that group’s Atlas of Chinese Religions research funded by the Luce Foundation. This atlas is being constructed in collaboration with the GIS Center at Academia Sinica in Taiwan and will provide references to the place names associated with the production of the translations and compilations included in the canon. Continued research on developing the software is being done in cooperation with the School of Creative Media and the Department of Chinese Translations Linguistics at City University of Hong Kong. It is important to understand that no project of this kind could possibly be undertaken without these multiple and widespread collaborations.