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Taiwan Buddhism Digital Museum and XML Markup, Metadata

Aming Tu
Chung Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies

Buddhism is an integral part of Taiwan's history and culture, neither of which can be understood adequately without attention to it. The aim of this digital museum project is to collect historical material related to thestudy of Taiwanese Buddhism from the Ming-Zheng Period and the Qing Dynasty to present, and analyze the situation and development of Taiwan Buddhist history and thought throughout its history, then to digitalize all the available material and make it freely accessible on the internet by users around the world. This will assist in the understanding of Taiwan Buddhism, and through this, the history and geography of Taiwan as a whole.

This presentation tries to introduce this newly finished Taiwan Buddhism Digital Museum and Archive -- mainly focus on the collections published in Taiwan under the Japanese colonial period. This section concentrates on the "South Seas Buddhist Association," the highest official Buddhist organization established by the Japanese Vice regal government, this journal was published for nineteen years beginning in 1922. At the same time, many other collections of the Japanese colonial period Buddhist Texts has been found recently, and then been digitalized with the XML Markup and Metadata. In consequence, the use of Taiwan Buddhist map with the temples and organizations will be introduced.