Digital Buddhist Texts and Buddhist Universities

Article Sidebar

The International Association of Buddhist Universities, IABU, is a new grouping in the world of Buddhist Studies and higher education. It is only a year old and still in its formative periods. The IABU was born of sustained collaborations between Buddhist leaders and scholars from all over the world who began meeting in 2004 in Bangkok to mark the United Nations Day of Vesak, UNDV, celebrations.
PDF
Published: Jul 5, 2019
Keywords:
Digital Buddhist Texts Buddhist Universities Tipitaka

Main Article Content

Lewis Lancaster

Abstract

It is a great pleasure to be part of this meeting of
the International Association of Buddhist Universities. I appreciate
the invitation to speak today about the role of IABU and the work
that has been done with regard to digital Buddhist texts. Bangkok is
an appropriate place to discuss these issues because on 30 May, 1988,
The Digital Tipitaka Development Team at Mahidol University
Computing Center, Thailand announced the completion of the first
major project to digitize Buddhist texts. The Siam edition of the Pali
Tipitaka in forty-five volumes had been successfully digitized and
released.

Article Details

How to Cite
Lancaster, L. (2019). Digital Buddhist Texts and Buddhist Universities. The Journal of International Association of Buddhist Universities (JIABU), 1(1), 133–154. Retrieved from https://so06.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/Jiabu/article/view/201948
Issue
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2008): The Journal of International Association of Buddhist Universities (JIABU)
Section
Article

Views and opinions expressed in the articles published by The Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Universities (JIABU), are of responsibility by such authors but not the editors and do not necessarily reflect those of the editors.

Author Biography

Lewis Lancaster

Professor Lancaster is the founder and Director of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI). ECAI (www.ecai.org) is promoting worldwide electronic access to quality research data. ECAI is a partnership of technical specialists and the scholarly community dedicated to the support of scholarship through technology. ECAI is building an infrastructure for retrieval of data over the Internet from servers located anywhere in the world. Guided by the paradigm of the historical atlas, research data is indexed by time and place using temporally-enabled Geographic Information Systems software. User queries retrieve and display data in GIS layers on a map-based interface, allowing comparisons across discipline, region, and time.