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Buddhism Ghent University
Medieval Chinese syntax Ghent University
“Medieval Chinese Syntax” aims to provide a sketch of the development of function words and syntactic structures during the Chinese Medieval period, including Early Medieval Chinese (ca. 0-700 A.D.) and Late Medieval Chinese (ca. 700-1100).
Northwestern Medieval Chinese Ghent University
This article deals with the history of research of Northwestern Medieval Chinese (NWMC), a dialect spoken in the area in Dūnhuáng and neighboring areas between the 10th and 12th century. The emphasis is on the description of research results concerning the phonological characteristics, reflected in transcription and bilingual material of manuscript texts, as well as in the use of dialect loan characters.
An introduction Ghent University
Miscellaneous informal remarks on narrative structures in Chinese maitreya accounts Ghent University
This paper attempts to analyze narrative structures and strategies in selected early Chinese Maitreya accounts. In this article I will mainly focus on early material on Maitreya, based on a small selection of sources. Although many of the sutra texts mentioned below can be dated to the Eastern Jìn period (317-420), the important question of text production and distribution during this early period (i.e., which texts were available during what ...
Some remarks on narrative strategies in Chinese Maitreya accounts Ghent University
In this paper I mainly focus on early material on Maitreya, based on a small selection of sources. Although many of the sūtra texts mentioned below can be dated to the Eastern Jìn period (317-420), the important question of text production and distribution during the early period (i.e., which texts were available during what time and at which locations, and where did they originate) cannot be dealt with (and also might be difficult to ...
Some reflections on the mark-up and analysis of Dunhuáng Manuscripts: exemplified by the platform Sutra Ghent University
This article investigates new methods of textual studies within the field of digital humanities. Exemplified by a mark-up of the Platform sutra.