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Buddhist, Confucian, and Daoist E-texts, Indexes, and Bibliographies

Established: 1995.07.30 ||| Updated 2007.04.07

1. Translations

• The Diamond Sutra
• The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment (Yuanjue jing)
• The Smaller Pure Land Sūtra (Translated by Karen MACK) [PDF] [HTML]
• The Larger Pure Land Sūtra (Translated by Hisao INAGAKI)
• Ten Approaches to the Resolution of Doctrinal Disputes (Simmun hwajaeng non). By Wonhyo
• The Culmination of the East Asian Confucian-Buddhist Debate in Korea: Jeong Dojeon's Array of Critiques Against Buddhism (Bulssi japbyeon) vs. Gihwa's Exposition of the Correct (Hyeonjeong non)
• The Genjōkōan and One Bright Pearl from Dōgen's Shōbōgenzō
• Zongmi on the Two Hindrances
• Five Chinese Classics: Analects, Great Learning, Doctrine of the Mean, Mencius, and Daodejing.

2. Digital Indexes

• Composite Index of CJK Buddhist Lexical Sources: Over 290,000 terms from dozens of Buddhist lexical sources. 82 files zipped. [Updated 2001.02.13] Unicode Text (utf-8).
• Index to the Chūgoku bukkyōshi jiten (Compiled by KAMATA Shigeo) [Created 2007.9.22]
• Index to the Hanguk pulgyo inmyong sajŏn (The Korean Buddhist Biographical Dictionary); in Unicode text and MS-Word formats. [Created 2000.05.28]
• Index to the Bukkyōgo daijiten, by Nakamura Hajime (ZIP format). The file has been saved in various formats, including: (1) Japanese-optimized Unicode text; (2) Chinese(Big5)-optimized MS-Word 98; (3) MacWord 5.0; (4) JIS plain text. The first two formats contain full information, while the final two contain a certain amount of data loss, as their encoding systems do not support enough characters.
• Index of Korean Buddhist writers listed in the Kankoku bussho kaidai jiten in Unicode text and JIS text formats.
• Index to the Nihon bukkyō jinmei jiten (Dictionary of Japanese Buddhist Names) in Unicode text and JIS text formats.

3. Specialized Bibliographies

[Storage format; Compiler]

• The Korean Buddhist Canon: A Descriptive Catalogue [TEI/XML; Compiled by Lancaster and Park; Digitized by Charles Muller]
• East Asian Studies Reference Guide [HTML; Buswell/Bodiford]
• Korean Buddhism [TEI/XML; Charles Muller]
• Indian Philosophy
• Pure Land Buddhism (multiple bibliographies) [Jérôme Ducor]
• Yogācāra Buddhism [TEI/XML; Charles Muller]

4. CJK Scriptural E-texts

[Note: This category was originally created in the days before the canons were digitized. What remains here are just a few special editions, or texts not readily available elsewhere.]

• SAT Taishō text database (in Unicode/HTML format)
• CBETA Taishō files with terms linked into the DDB
• CJK Text of the Sūtra of Perfect Enlightenment: (Gihwa's 己和 Amended Edition, wherein Giwha corrected the errors he perceived in the version handed down in the Korean Tripiṭaka and Japanese Taishō)
• CJK Text of Wonhyo's Ijangui ("Doctrine of the Two Hindrances") New Critical Edition, edited by Charles Muller.
• CJK Text of Gihwa's Geumgang banyaparamilgyeong yungwan ("The Penetrating Thread of the Diamond Sutra") HBJ, 7.116-122.
• CJK Text of the Daodejing
• CJK Text (Shift-JIS and UTF-8) of the Yijing ("Book of Changes"). The Xicizhuan (Hsi-tz'u chüan --"Great Appendix") portion of the text is fully corrected, but the main text of the hexagrams is still in raw OCR uncorrected condition.
• Digitized text of the Lun fogu biao 論佛骨表 (Memorial on the Buddha's Relics) by Hanyu 韓愈

Maintained by Charles Muller, Toyo Gakuen University