Intertextuality in the Chinese Buddhist Canon:Computational-Philological Assessment of Sources, Authorship/Translatorship, and Style

该项目将采用现有的突破性计算机辅助技术，对中文经典的互文性、风格和归属问题进行三个相互关联的研究。这些研究将提高我们对大量中国佛教典籍的作者/译者、日期和性质的认识的准确性。由于这些文本是许多领域调查的证据基础，因此该项目的研究结果可能具有相当大的连锁意义。资助两名博士后，完成三个子项目中的两个（第三个子项目将由主申请人完成）；为了进一步的软件开发；举办会议和工作坊活动，宣传我们的研究结果；并用于出版。

The project will apply existing, ground-breaking computer-assisted techniques to achieve three interrelated studies of problems of intertextuality, style and attribution in the Chinese canon. These studies will increase the accuracy of our knowledge of the authors/translators, dates, and nature of a significant numbers of Chinese Buddhist texts. Because the texts are the evidential bedrock for investigations in a number of fields, the project findings have the potential for considerable knock-on significance. Funding is sought for two postdoc fellowships, to complete two of the three sub-projects (the third will be completed by the principal applicant); for some further software development; for conference and workshop activities to publicise our findings; and for publication.