Project
Representatives: Kosei Ishii, Takashi Aoki
This presentation reports our attempt to use XML (Extensible Markup Language) in developing a database for manuscripts of the Dilun or "Stage Treatise" school. Since only a few of the works of the Dilun masters have survived, their doctrinal systems and their influence on other schools have not yet been clarified. Mr. Takashi Aoki and I have been discovering many handwritten manuscripts of several lineages within the Dilun school in the Dunhuang materials. We started to tackle a project in which those manuscripts are transcribed into electronic texts with various pieces of information marked up with XML. We have found the flexibility of XML well-suited to our needs in this particular project, as it offers the kind of support needed our database.