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[This version: 19 October 1993]
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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 93 10:08:19 -0700
From: buddhst@garnet.berkeley.edu

ELECTRONIC BUDDHIST TEXT INITIATIVE.

[...]

 We recently formed an association of about 25 groups involved in the
input of Buddhist materials. We call the group Electronic Buddhist Text
Initiative. I am the current Chair of the advisory board and Urs App is
the coordinator.  Urs is at Hanazono University in Kyoto.  We have
recently distributed a listing of our activities through the publication
from Hanazono called "Electronic Bodhidharma".  Last summer, a team from
the EBTI made a tour of input operations in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Bangkok,
Shanghai, Beijing, Seoul.  We have set up seminars in several of these
cities to help people with the coding and input problems.

        On October 29 at a conference in Berkeley on "Buddhist Studies:
The State of the Art" we will have demonstrations of some of the
existing data bases.  Mahidol University in Bangkok has completed the
Siam edition of Pali Canon and it will be offered on CD ROM this fall.
Urs App will demonstrate some of the Chinese data bases and the
translations tables, software and other matters. I currently serve as
the Chair of the newly formed Electronic Publications Committee for the
American Academy of Religion.  It is our hope to distribute and help
with the creation of data bases related to religious materials.
[...]

Lewis Lancaster
Department of East Asian Languages
University of California
Berkeley
email:  buddhst@garnet.berkeley.edu
FAX  (510) 642-6031
Tel (510)  642-3485
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