* Final data: explanatory notes
Final document: explanatory notes
- Monastery's name : Standard name of the monastery/settlement.
- Monastery's modern country : Name of the modern country of where the monastery/settlement is now situated (e.g. Bangladesh).
- Alternative/historical names : All other names (incl. their translations into English) by which the monastery/settlement have been referred to.
- Other known nearby Buddhist monasteries : This is the question about other known Buddhist monasteries situated within the one day travel on foot (= c. 30 km/18 miles) from the target monastery.
- Monastery's Buddhist sub-tradition : e.g. Ch'an/Zen, Shingon, Tiantai, etc., etc.
- Date-early : The earliest confirmed date of the monastery's operation. All dates are CE unless specified otherwise.
- Date-intermediate : Confirmed intermediate date of the monastery's operation. All dates are CE unless specified otherwise.
- Date-late : The latest confirmed date of the monastery's operation. All dates are CE unless specified otherwise.
- Contacts with other monasteries (this should become, eventually, an incremental scale) : e.g. exchange of correspondence; visits by junior monks; visits by senior monks/abbots/famous teachers; exchange of gifts; emulation of another's institution's monastic rules, charter and/or architecture; practical aid in times of trouble.