Entrance Through the Scriptures: Catalogues and Electronic Text as a New Gate to the Buddhist Tradition=佛教研究的新入口 -- 佛教經目與電子全文

Wittern, Christian (著)=維習安 (au.)

Author

Wittern, Christian (著)=維習安 (au.)

Source

中華佛學學報=Chung-Hwa Buddhist Journal=Journal of Chinese Buddhist Studies

Volume

n.20

Date

2007.07.01

Pages

411 - 429

Publisher

中華佛學研究所=Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies

Publisher Url

http://www.chibs.edu.tw/publication_tw.php?id=12

Location

新北市, 臺灣 [New Taipei City, Taiwan]

Content type

期刊論文=Journal Article

Language

中文=Chinese; 英文=English

Note

作者為京都大學人文科學研究所副教授

Keyword

Buddhist Canon=佛教藏經; Cataloging=目錄; Bibliographical Database=文獻資料庫; Modeling=模型; Topic Maps=主題圖

Abstract

Almost from the beginning of the Buddhist tradition in China, cataloguing and recording of the scriptures has been an important activity in the attempt of coming to terms with the vast universe of the Buddhist teachings.
In this paper, I will recount the history of the WWW Database of Chinese Buddhist texts (available at http://www.kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~wittern/canwww), which was started with a similar purpose to make use of the electronic medium to get a handle on and a window to explore the scriptures. The problems that have been encountered during the ten years of its ongoing development, the many changes in format, methodology and outlook, its present state, as well as prospects for future development will be the main topic of this paper. This narrative will be framed by the underlying questions of what constitutes a scripture in the Chinese cultural sphere, how different translations of the “same” scriptures are to be treated and how they relate to the “original” of Indian or Central Asian origin.
This paper will however go beyond what a traditional scholarly paper is supposed to do and experiment with how a new electronic version of the scriptural catalogues, together with electronic versions of the texts themselves, can be combined to enhance our understanding of the scriptures and the times and people that produced.

傳統中國佛教從一開始，為了掌握浩瀚龐大的佛陀教導，佛經的編目和記錄便是很重要的活動。
筆者在此篇文章中將陳述線上漢文佛教文獻資料庫（http:www.kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~wittern/canwww）的歷史，它的目的同樣是為了掌握經典，不同的只是使用了電子媒介。本文的主題將是此資料庫在十年持續發展中所遭遇的問題，格式、方法原則與外觀呈現的各種變化，資料庫目前的狀態與未來展望。此篇文章依下列問題陳述：
1. 漢傳經典由什麼組成？
2. 我們是如何處理「同一」經典的不同譯本？
3. 這些譯本與源於印度或中亞的「原典」有何關連？
這篇文章超越傳統學術論文的部份，而去嘗試結合經典目錄與全文電子版，進而增進我們對於經典以及當時時代背景與人物的了解。

Table of contents

The Birth of CANWWW: Experiments with the Electronic Medium 413
What is the Content of a Catalog? 414
The WWW Database of Chinese Buddhist Texts: A Bibliographic Database? 418
WWW Database of Chinese Buddhist Texts as a Topic Map? 418
Divide et Conquere 421
Using the Database 423
Combining the Database with the Electronic Version of the Scriptures 425
Conclusions 428
References 428

ISSN

10177132 (P)

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