We are presently in the process of reorganizing the IRIZ website, in the hope of facilitating access to its various sections and to the information they contain. As we are not computer professionals, the reorganization will focus primarily on updating the contents rather than on providing the site with a nice new facade. The full transition to the new site will require some time, and we ask for your patience during this period. The unchanged website is still found below, although it does not contain the latest information.

The largest collection of Buddhist primary text materials on the Internet

News (May 24, 1996)

Electronic Zen texts (JIS and Big5) (5/23/96)

Buddhist input projects (5/10/96)

Zen Art (4/96)

Institute information

Zen centers and masters

Zen bibliographies and text information

Electronic text in East Asia

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Information about our INSTITUTE and its PUBLICATIONS

• Institute staff and visiting scholars (98.11.17)
• Printed publications
• Software copyright information
• The Zen KnowledgeBase and the ZenBase CD 1 (and how to get it for just ten US$)
  
• Over 80 electronic Zen text files in JIS and Big5 ready for copying
  
• Our electronic Zen Research Tools
  
• Our 48.000 character IRIZ KanjiBase and related tools
  
• Unique tools for looking up terms in a dozen Zen dictionaries
  
• Our input tools (Zen terms, four corner dictionaries, OCR)
  
• The IRIZ gaiji set and an elegant font with diacritics
• Programs for JIS/Big5 and Big5/JIS code conversion on both Mac and DOS

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Information about ZEN MASTERS and ZEN CENTERS

• Lists of Chinese Zen masters in Chinese characters and various romanizations
• Address list of the world's Zen centers

   

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Information about BUDDHIST INPUT PROJECTS

• The Electronic Buddhist Text Initiative (EBTI)
  
• Michel Mohr's report of the Taipei EBTI meeting 1996
• Urs App's surveys of Buddhist input projects (1993 and 1995)
  
• A case study of the Foguangshan project
• Information about the input of the Korean Buddhist canon (with illustrations)

   

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Information about ZEN TEXTS and PUBLICATIONS ON ZEN

• Yanagida Seizan's classic Annotated Bibliography of Chan Texts ("Zenseki kaidai")
  
• Urs App's "Annotated Bibliography of Reference Works for Chan Studies"
• Bibliographies of English, Russian, Hungarian, French, and German publications

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ELECTRONIC TEXT in EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES

• Various articles from the Electronic Bodhidharma journal
• Electronic text and markup issues

From dumb to intelligent text

Dog-Ears and SGML

The code of the codex

Markup at the input level

Computerized collation of a Dunhuang text

• Multilingual text processing; system and application software

From the Multilingual Battlefield (1)

Windows and the World

From the Multilingual Battlefield (2)

• Input of Chinese texts, Chinese character issues

Chinese character sets and codes

Guidelines for the Creation of Large Chinese Text Databases

Ten Music Lessons for Chinese Database Creators

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ZEN ART and ZEN STORIES (under construction)

• ZEN POEMS
• Reproductions of WORKS OF ZEN ART
  • The Ten Oxherding Pictures with Urs App's translation
• ZEN STORIES and ANECDOTES

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The International Research Institute for Zen Buddhism (IRIZ) at Hanazono University (Kyoto, Japan) is an academic research institution devoted to the study of Zen Buddhism. We aim to serve the needs of researchers, students, teachers, and practitioners of Buddhism, but we also offer electronic tools--such as a 48.000 character Chinese character database--of interest to people involved in all fields of East Asian Studies such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean h istories, literatures, and religions. This WWW site and its contents form part of the Zen KnowledgeBase project initiated and directed by Urs APP.

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Our mail address: Hanazono University, Nakakyo-ku, Nishinokyo, Tsubonouchi-cho 8-1 Kyoto, 604 Japan. Tel. +81-75-811-5181 Fax. 811-9664

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Last revised:99.8.5