Nirukti in Buddhist canon

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...

Pain and its Ending: The Four Noble Truths in the Therav!da Buddhist Canon

This is a well-presented and clearly written book, based on a wide reading of both recent and older scholarship. Carol Anderson gives a detailed account of the various guises in which the four noble truths appear in the P!li texts. Overall, this is a valuable and intelligent account of the material, and it will, I suspect, be required reading in Buddhist studies courses for some time. That said...

Kusala in Canon and Commentary

This paper examines the use of kusala in the commentarial sources and finds that, although the commentators are aware of various senses of the word kusala, they tend to give primacy to meanings such as ÒgoodÓ or ÒmeritoriousÓ. A detailed examination of the canonical Pali sources gives a rather different picture. Sometimes kusala is found in association with the idea of kamma or related notions,...

Stroke in Canon of Medicine

BACKGROUND Stroke has a huge negative impact on the society and more adversely affect women. There is scarce evidence about any neuroprotective effects of commonly used drug in acute stroke. Bushnell et al. provided a guideline focusing on the risk factors of stroke unique to women, including reproductive factors, metabolic syndrome, obesity, atrial fibrillation, and migraine with aura. The ten...

Canon-log Transfer Characteristic