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Buddhism in the Digital Age
Symposium Program

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

“Buddhism and the New Technology:An Overview”[paper] [abstract]
Lewis Lancaster,
University of California, Berkeley                       

VIRTUAL REALITY, IMAGERY, AND TECHNOLOGY

“Virtual Heritage in Time, Space and Place”[paper] [abstract]
Maurizio Forte
University of California, Merced, USA

“Remote Sensing Technology and Angkor Wat”[abstract]
Damian Evans
University of Sydney, Australia

“Imag(n)ing Shuilu’an: A Multimedia Archival Repository” [paper] [abstract]
Harlan Wallach
Northwestern University, USA

“Visualizing Buddhism in Time and Place” [paper] [abstract]
Jeanette Zerneke
University of California, Berkeley, USA

“The International Dunhuang Project: Reconstructing, Disseminating, and Enabling Scholarship on the World’s Earliest Buddhist Library” [paper] [abstract]
Susan Whitfield
The International Dunhuang Project (IDP),
The British Library

INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

“EventWeb for Disseminating Cultural History” (*Not Presented) [paper] [abstract]
Ramesh Jain
University of California, Irvine, USA

”Documentation of Buddhist Centres in Tamil Nadu” [paper] [abstract]
D. Dayalan
Archaeological Survey of India, Agra, India

“International Organizations and Cultural Heritage”[paper]
Claudia Liuzza
Ename Center, Belgium

“Appearance of a Corpus of Buddhist Scriptures and Appearance of a World of Buddhism: A History of Buddhism from the Perspective of the Development of the Medium” [paper] [abstract]
Masahiro Shimoda
Tokyo University, Japan

DIGITAL BUDDHIST TEXTS

“A 21s Century Tripitaka: The Development of the Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon” [paper] [abstract]
Min Bahadur Shakya,
Nagarjuna Institute of Exact Methods, Nepal

“CBETA- Past Results and Future Expectations” [abstract]
Huimin Bhiksu, Aming Tu
Fagu Buddhist College, Taiwan

“A New Way Looking into Digital Buddhist Canons” [paper] [abstract]
Howie Lan
University of California, Berkeley

“A Program to Translate the Chinese Taisho Tripitaka into English and other Western Languages” [paper] [abstract]
Tran Tien Khanh
Tue Quang Wisdom Light Foundation

 CULTURAL HERITAGE OF BUDDHISM

“Atlas of Taiwanese Religion” [paper] [abstract]
Cheer Dean
Yuan Heng Graduate School of Buddhism, Taiwan

“Digital Buddhist Text, its achievement and challenge”
Soonil Hwang
Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea

“Cultural Buddhist Sites of Vietnam”
Hau Le Cong
Vietnam Buddhist University Project Team    

"The Future of Buddhism on the Net" [paper]
Ven. Pannyavaro
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