This repository provides social network data for the study of Chinese Buddhist history. The datasets combine the raw data of various Gaoseng zhuan 高僧傳 projects with the Buddhist Person Name Authority. The data was originally collected at the Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts in collaboration with the Chung-hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies.
此倉庫提供關於漢傳佛教歷史的網絡資料。其資料集合并高僧傳文學專案與法鼓山佛教人名規範資料庫的數據以便使用在網絡視覺和分析工具中。當前資料集的版本含18000以上的人物。數據跨越兩千年的漢傳佛教史，從安世高到聖嚴法師。本資料採集專案由法鼓山文理學院與中華佛教研究所資助。
The evolving datasets offered here are prepared for immediate use in open source SNA tools (such as Gephi or Cytoscape) and are the basis for an ongoing series of presentations, workshops and papers. If you find any errors in the data, or would like to create or contribute data on social networks related to the study of Buddhist history, please get in touch.
Further supporting material can be found here. Unsure what to do with this? Try this how-to.
Historical Social Network of Chinese Buddhism version 2021-06. (18,130 nodes (actors), and c. 26,831 connections (from c. 33,977 edges):
- As .gephi project file [c.1.2MB] (Layouted with ForceAtlas2 (Scale:0.5, Gravity: 0.1, Edge Weight 0.0, Theta: 1.9) & Yifan Hu)).
- As .gexf file [c.21 MB] (DIY layout, colored for dynasty).
- As .cys file [c. 2 MB] (for use in Cytoscape)
If you are using this dataset please cite:
Marcus Bingenheimer. 2021. ‘Historical Social Network of Chinese Buddhism’ Ver.2021-06. https://github.com/mbingenheimer/ChineseBuddhism_SNA.
For those interested in the structure of the Gaoseng zhuan data, and more information on how to use the dataset:
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Marcus BINGENHEIMER. 2021. “The Historical Social Network of Chinese Buddhism” Journal of Historical Network Research Vol. 5: 233-247.
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Marcus BINGENHEIMER. 2020. “On the Use of Historical Social Network Analysis in the Study of Chinese Buddhism: The Case of Dao’an, Huiyuan, and Kumārajīva” Journal of the Japanese Association of Digital Humanities Vol.5-2 (2020): 84-131. (Special Issue on “Buddhism and Technology”). DOI: https://doi.org/10.17928/jjadh.5.2_84.
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Marcus BINGENHEIMER. 2018. “Who was ‘Central’ for Chinese Buddhist History? - A Social Network Approach.” International Journal of Buddhist Thought and Culture. Vol.28-2 (Dec. 2018): 45-67.
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Marcus BINGENHEIMER, Jen-Jou HUNG, Simon WILES. 2011. "Social Network Visualization from TEI Data." Literary and Linguistic Computing 26(3), 2011, pp. 271-278.
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