Work in progress
WARNING: This is a work in progress. Contents of this wiki site will be developed, verified and iteratively improved upon for several long months. Any of the data pages and maps (esp. details of doctrinal affiliations, place names, dates, and geographical coordinates) may change suddenly, as well as change several times in short succession.
Therefore, this work should not be depended on in any manner for scholarly or popular purposes until the current label 'work in progress' is removed from this wiki site. - sg, tmc, lhp - Jan 2009.
Welcome to the Mapping Buddhist Monasteries 200-1200 CE Project.
Est.: 23 Jan 2009. Last updated: 2 May 2012.
Duration of the project so far: 39 months.
Monasteries have been catalogued & mapped so far: 551.
The Project aims to
- catalogue,
- crosscheck, verify and interrelate,
- tag,
- georeference and, finally,
- map online (using KML markup & Google Maps technology)
details of (1) communication [= exchange of information], (2) contacts [= movement of monastic personnel and other face-to-face dealings] and (3) affinities [= political, philosophical/doctrinal and artistic links and alliances] between as many as possible of the Buddhist monasteries and convents known to have operated in South Asia, SE Asia, Central Asia, and East Asia from approx. 200 CE till approx. 1200 CE.
Stewart Gordon &
T. Matthew Ciolek,
Lizbeth H. Piel.
Project's Timeline: Monasteries catalogued & mapped as of: Apr 2012 - 551; Oct 2011 - 530; Feb 2011 - 513; Sep 2010 - 476; Mar 2010 - 327 [start of the count].
