Lewis Lancaster
Buddhism in a Global Age of Technology
A distinguished scholar of Buddhism, Lewis Lancaster founded the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative to use the latest computer technology to map the spread of various strands of Buddhism from the distant past to the present.
Lewis Lancaster, a specialist in the canons of Buddhist texts, was the first student to complete the Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies at the University of Wisconsin. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley, for 33 years, with five years as Chair. By means of a grant from the National Geographic Society, he and a group of students and faculty inventoried texts in monasteries among the Sherpa people in the Himalayas. He then began to research the problems of converting Buddhist texts from Pali and Chinese into computer format, which resulted in major CD ROM databases. That computer experience then led him to form an association of scholars called the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, which is housed on the Berkeley campus and has a thousand affiliates worldwide. He is now President at Hsilai University in Rosemead.
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Movie about Shunryu Suzuki
The Role and Significance of Korean Son in the Study of East Asian Buddhism by Lewis Lancaster
INTERVIEW about Shunryu Suzuki
Self-Explanation, Feedback and the Development of Analogical Reasoning Skills: Microgenetic Evidence for a Metacognitive Processing Account
A Model for Virtual Archiving by Lewis Lancaster
ELECTRONIC CULTURAL ATLAS by Lewis Lancaster
Unjobs a swiss association
Combining Place, Time, and Topic: The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative by Lewis Lancaster and Michael Buckland
On Googlebook
The Korean Buddhist canon: a descriptive catalogue Von Lewis R. Lancaster,Sung-bae Park
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