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Ciolek, T. Matthew and Stewart Gordon. 2012. Appendix 7: A template for a Wikidot.com-based collection of data-nuggets researched by the MBM Project. [in:]
Ciolek, T. Matthew and Stewart Gordon. 2012. Mapping the Contours of a Buddhist World: An Online Database of Georeferenced Buddhist Monasteries, 200 -1200 CE.
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Appendix 7
A template for a Wikidot.com-based collection of data-nuggets researched by the MBM Project
The following data fields have been developed in 2009 by T. Matthew Ciolek and Stewart Gordon for
the "Mapping Buddhist
Monasteries (MBM) 200-1200 CE Project" (http://monastic-asia.wikidot.com).
Please acknowledge this document
(using the suggested citation format above) should you find the enclosed material useful in your own data gathering operations.
Return to the Mapping the Contours of a Buddhist World paper.
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A. Raw data
[A place for the storage of notes (with references to sources) used to answer questions 1-17 below.]
B. Lat/Long coordinates' accuracy:
[A number that indicates whether the actual placement of a monastery in the physical terrain falls within 200Êm, 2Êkm or 20Êkm
of the point defined by the coordinates reported at #4 below.]
1. Monastery's name
[Standard name of the monastery]
2. Monastery's modern country & province
[Name of the modern country of where the ancient monastery is situated (e.g. Bangladesh).]
3. Monastery's alternative/historical names
[All other names (incl. their translations into English) by which the monastery have been referred to.]
4. Monastery's lat/long coordinates
[Data expressed in decimal degrees and their fractions.]
5. Other known nearby Buddhist monasteries
[Indicates whether other known Buddhist monasteries were situated within one day's travel on foot
(= c. 30Êkm/18 miles) from the reference monastery.]
6. Modern name of the nearest known city, town, or village
[self explanatory]
7. The settlement's alternative/historical names
[All other names (incl. their translations into English), by which the settlement has been referred to.]
8. The settlement's coordinates
[Data expressed in decimal degrees and their fractions]
9. Monastery's major Buddhist tradition
[e.g. Theravada, Vajrayana, etc.]
10. Monastery's Buddhist sub-tradition
[e.g. Ch'an/Zen, Shingon, Tiantai, etc.]
11. Date-early
[The earliest confirmed date of the monastery's operation. All dates are CE unless otherwise specified.]
12. Date-intermediate
[Confirmed intermediate date of the monastery's operation. All dates are CE unless otherwise specified.]
13. Date-late
[The latest confirmed date of the monastery's operation. All dates are CE unless otherwise specified.]
14. Details of contacts with other monasteries
[Provide data. This should lead, eventually, to the development of a scale measuring the apparent intensity, seriousness and frequency of
contacts. For example, an ordinal scale could be created by ranking the relative importance of such incidents as:
the exchange of correspondence; visits by junior monks; visits by senior monks/abbots/famous teachers; philosophical and ideological
affinities; exchanges of gifts; emulation of another institution's monastic rules, charter, architecture or artistic style; or practical aid in
times of trouble.]
15. Type of evidence regarding the monastery
[e.g. scriptural references, accounts of pilgrims, archeological evidence, inferences from toponyms, etc.]
16. Additional notes
[Other useful data, incl. details of the size of the monastic population.]
17. Corrections & addenda to this page were kindly provided by
[All addenda/corrections however small to be duly recorded and acknowledged.]
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