Center for buddhist studies conference
Nov. 2-3, 2018
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
TRIPITAKA FOR THE FUTURE:
Envisioning the Buddhist Canon
in the Digital Age
November 2, 2018
Opening Ceremony
Host: Jiang Wu | Director, Center for Buddhist Studies
Speakers: Alain-Philippe Durand | Dean, College of Humanities
Representatives of conference sponsors
Kimberly Jones | Vice Dean, College of Humanities
Group Photo and Coffee Break
Panel 1. The Buddhist Canon in the Modern Era
Chair: Albert Welter | University of Arizona
The Chinese Buddhist Canon and the Rise of Textual Modernity in East Asia
The Buddhist Canon in America: Meditation Centers and Scriptural Texts
Competing for National Pride: Making New Editions of the Buddhist Canon in Modern East Asia
Coffee Break
Panel 2. New Initiatives of Canon Studies
Chair: Caleb Simmons | University of Arizona
A Brief Account of the Beginning of “Selected Edition of Teaching Materials for the Chinese Buddhist Canon” 《汉文大藏经教材选编》 Project
Data Adaptive Text Extraction Techniques for Individualized Big Data Curation and the Generation of Machine Learning Models for Buddhist Canon Research
Lunch
Panel 3 Young Scholar’s Forum
Chair: Alison Jameson | University of Arizona
The Transformation of the Sutra of Forty-Two Sections in the Chinese Tripitaka
Susiddhikara Worship Method and the Textual Lineage in Chinese Canonical Tradition
The Summary of the Great Vehicle and the Revival of the Yogācāra School during the Late Ming Dynasty
Coffee Break
Panel 4. The Buddhist Canon from Historical Perspectives
Chair: Jiang Wu | University of Arizona
The Uses and Abuses of Buddhist Texts in China: Searching for a “Practical Canon”
Mapping the Body of the Tibetan Buddhist Canon: Citational Practice as “Limitation” and “Ingenuity” in Buddhist Exegesis
The Body of Texts Inside of the Buddha’s Body: A Preliminary Assessment of the Canonical Texts Interred Inside of Buddhist Statues in East Asia.
Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
(Sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation)
Host and Chair: Albert Welter
"Ti-yong ("essence-function"): Toward a More Thorough Understanding of the Ethico-Soteriological Prioritizing Principle for East Asian Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism."
Reception at UA Poetry Center
November 3, 2018
Panel 5: Digitization of the Buddhist Canon
Chair: Takashi Miura | University of Arizona
Building a Digital Infrastructure for the Humanities and the Role of Buddhist Studies
The Digital Dictionary of Buddhism and CJKV-E Dictionary of Confucianism and Daoism at 32 Years
Toward an Ecosystem for Buddhist Studies in the Digital Environments
Break
Panel 6 The Application of AI and Deep Learning Tools (I)
Chair: Bryan Carter | University of Arizona
Toward High Performance Optical Character Recognition of Historical Tripitaka Document Images: A Deep Learning Approach
AI-assisted compilation of Buddhist Tripitaka
Preliminary Research on the Chinese Buddhist Canon based on Google Attention OCR and TensorFlow Applications
Lunch Break
Panel 7: The Application of AI and Deep Learning Tools (II)
Chair: Judd Ruggill | University of Arizona
Methods for Indexing, Annotating, and Retrieving Information from Chinese Buddhist Texts
Adaptive Machine Learning in the Digitization of the Chinese Buddhist Canon
Coffee Break
Roundtable: “The Digital Tripitaka and Artificial Intelligence”
Moderator: Ken S. McAllister | Associate Dean of Research and Program Innovation (College of Humanities), Professor of Public & Applied Humanities
Panelists:
Ven. Xianchao | Longquan Temple
Masahiro Shimoda | University of Tokyo
Alex Amies | Infrastructure Department, Google INC
Jiang Wu | The University of Arizona
Farewell Party
Participants
Google Cloud Platform, Google Inc.

University of Arizona

University of Arizona

University of Arizona

Sogang University

University of Arizona

University of Arizona

University of Arizona

South China University of Technology

University of Arizona


International Institute for Digital Humanities

University of Tokyo

Harvard University

University of Arizona

University of Tokyo

University of Arizona

University of Arizona


University of Arizona

Longquan Temple

University of Arizona

Foguang Temple

Sun Yat-sen University
Sponsored by the World Buddhist Youth Foundation, Society for Promotion of Buddhism (BDK America), and Richard L. Evans Office of Religious Outreach, Brigham Young University (BYU), and Su Wukang East Asia Research Fund.