KAPISI AND GANDHARA ACCORDING TO CHINESE BUDDHIST SOURCES

Prolegomenon to the Study of Medieval Chinese Buddhist Literature

A Dependency Treebank of the Chinese Buddhist Canon

We present a dependency treebank of the Chinese Buddhist Canon, which contains 1,514 texts with about 50 million Chinese characters. The treebank was created by an automatic parser trained on a smaller treebank, containing four manually annotated sutras (Lee and Kong, 2014). We report results on word segmentation, part-of-speech tagging and dependency parsing, and discuss challenges posed by th...

Eye on religion: miracles in the Chinese Buddhist tradition.

Books on Buddhism for general readers rarely mention miracles. Instead, the emphasis is usually on the life of the Buddha, his teachings, and the monastic order, the so-called “Three Treasures.” This is a heritage left by the European scholars who first became interested in Buddhism in the 19 century. Take the example of T.W. Rhys Davids, who founded the Pali Text Society in 1886 in England, an...

Selecting biomedical data sources according to user preferences

MOTIVATION Biologists are now faced with the problem of integrating information from multiple heterogeneous public sources with their own experimental data contained in individual sources. The selection of the sources to be considered is thus critically important. RESULTS Our aim is to support biologists by developing a module based on an algorithm that presents a selection of sources relevan...

A Companion to Buddhist Philosophy

The culminating philosophy and practice for Buddhist traditions in Tibet is what is found in tantra, or Vajray ā na. Yet Tibet is unique in the Buddhist world in that it is a place where not only the traditions of tantra (for which it is widely known) are practiced, but where the epistemological traditions of valid cognition ( pram āṇ a ) and what came to be known as Pr ā sa ṅ gika-Madhyamaka a...