The Making of a Sacred Landscape: Visualizing Hangzhou Buddhist Culture via Geoparsing a Local Gazetteer the Xianchun Lin'an zhi 咸淳臨安志

This project uses local sources to visualize and analyze the spatial distribution of Buddhist sites in Hangzhou 杭州, China, in the Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279). It aims to highlight regional religious features in Hangzhou as a locality—the interactions between Buddhism and sociocultural factors—...

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Authors: Liu, Jeffrey (Author) ; Wan, Ziling (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2022
In: Religions
Year: 2022, Volume: 13, Issue: 8
Further subjects:B Regional Religious System
B GIS
B visualization
B Buddhist temple
B Religion
B Spatial Humanities
B Hangzhou
B local gazetteer
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