Overview
From Paula Curtis Collection[1]: This is the website for the Temple Gazetteer Project at the Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts. Gazetteers or local histories are a distinct genre of Chinese historiography. Usually written by scholars interested in a region, city or temple, gazetteers are compilations of a variety of texts. They are treasure houses containing topographical descriptions, biographies, poems, maps, portraits, miracle stories and much more. The aim of the project is to tap into this wealth of information in order to deepen our understanding of Chinese Buddhist history. Between 2007 and 2010, 237 gazetteers were digitized and are distributed on this website. Of these 13 gazetteers were digitized as full-text archives and marked up with TEI/XML, identifying all person and place names as well as dates.
- Institution/Author: Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts
- Period: Premodern
- Geographic Focus: China
- Access: Open Access
Digital Humanities Resources on East Asia by Dr. Paula R. Curtis ↩︎