Internet resources for Religion

This is a large online database of Chinese works complied by
Academia Sinica in Taiwan. It contains very rich contents
that span across Chinese historical classics, Buddhism
scripts, various local gazetteers of Taiwan, as well as
other primary resources on Taiwan and its history.
Particularly, it has an online version of the Encyclopedia
of Taiwan (臺灣文獻叢刊).

The online journal for the study and exhibition of the
religion and arts of Asia. Asianart.com is dedicated to all
aspects of Asian art. It offers a forum for scholars,
museums and commercial galleries. It displays highlights of
exhibitions in public and private institutions and
galleries; present new discoveries by scholars and
connoisseurs; and, by providing space for private galleries
to present their works, offer the visitor a selection of
fine Asian art worldwide.

BuddhaNet is a nonsectarian organization aiming
to link up with the growing worldwide culture of
people committed to the Buddha's teachings and
lifestyle. Without focusing on any sect's beliefs
or practices, its website provides a diverse
variety of quality resources about Buddhism in
general, including a World Buddhist Directory,
BuddhaZine-Online Magazine, Insight Meditation
Online, and the Buddhist eLibrary. In particular,
the Buddhist eLibrary is set up to support the
free dissemination of digital Buddhist educational
materials around the world.

These databases integrate information from various projects
at the Library and Information Center at Dharma Drum
Buddhist College. By providing information on Chinese
calendar dates, as well as an onomasticon of person and
place names from Buddhist sources they help with
disambiguation and geo-spatial referencing of names and
dates. The data is openly available through various web-
services, including a Google search plug-in for Firefox.

This database contains records for over 140,000 articles
published in Chinese Buddhist Journals of the Republican Era
(1911-1949). These are all articles collected in the Minguo
fojiao qikan wenxian jicheng 民國佛教期刊文獻集成, (Complete
Collection of Republican-Era Buddhist Periodical Literature)
(MFQ), and its supplement the Minguo fojiao qikan wenxian
jicheng bubian 民國佛教期刊文獻集成．補編, (MFQB). Both MFQ and
MFQB were compiled under the leadership of Huang Xianian 黃夏
年 and published in 2006 and 2007 respecively.

The online database, Christian Sources in New Local
Gazetteers of China, is the result of a seminal project
undertaken by the Hong Kong Christian Council and Hong Kong
Spirit Seminary College (of the Roman Catholic Church). The
database specializes in delivering digitalized Christian
sources excerpted from the New Local Gazetteers of China,
published between the 1980s and the 2000s. It covers
Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, Nestorian and Judaic sources
as are recorded in the New Local Gazetteers of various
administrative levels.

Started in 2006, ChurchChina is an online magazine that is
concerned with the
current state and development of Christian churches in
China. It has professional theological articles from
scholars as well as autobiographical ones for general
readers.

The Daoist Studies website is a portal designed to assist
researchers and scholars of Daoism, practitioners, and
interested members of the public in furthering knowledge
about Daoism. The website features an extensive bibliography
of secondary sources as well as links to collections of
Daoist texts including the an index to the Daozang 道臧 and
PDF facsimiles of the Zangwai Daoshu 臧外道書 and other e-
texts.

This is the website for the Temple Gazetteer Project at
Dharma Drum Buddhist College. The project is funded by the
Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies. The aim of the
project is to tap into this wealth of information in order
to deepen our understanding of Chinese Buddhist history.
Between 2007 and 2010, 237 gazetteers were digitized and
are distributed on this website. Of these 13 gazetteers
were digitized as full-text archives and marked up with
TEI/XML, identifying all persons and place names as well
as dates. A print edition of these enhanced versions is
under preparation.

The Digital Archive Projects t at Dharma Drum Buddhist
College contains several projects: Scripture and Canon,
Buddhism in Taiwan, Bibliographies, Catalogs and
Publications, Miscellaneous projects, Multi-media Archives,
and Collected Works.

This dictionary is a compilation of Buddhist terms, texts,
temple, schools, persons, etc. that are found in East
Asian Buddhist canonical sources. While there is obviously
a basic layer of East Asian terminology, since much of
what East Asian Buddhists have written about is the
Buddhism of India, Central Asia, and Tibet, the content of
this database/dictionary/encyclopedia/translation glossary
is pan-Buddhist in character. This project, which was
initiated in 1986, is to the best of our knowledge, the
most comprehensive compilation of Buddhist terms presently
available in English.

This digital library contains Buddhist bibliographies
(396,555 entries) and a database of 34,930 full text
Buddhist articles in 45 languages and 15 different types of
data.

该网站囊括台湾所有的佛教寺院介绍、文教组织介绍、佛教人物介绍、文化
艺术的发展。此外，该站还有一个很特殊的功能，就是寺院虚拟巡礼，使用
照片的３Ｄ技术，让使用者可以身历其境。

Elder John Lai's Archives are dedicated to the study of
the history of Christianity in Taiwan with special
emphasis attached to the Presbysterian Church. This
resource is of significant research value for the study of
early history of Christianity in Taiwan. Currently, the
Archives contain three parts: 1. the full text of Prof.
John Lai’s “Kau-hoe-su-oe” 《教會史話》, a collection of
articles on the history of Christianity in Taiwan; 2.
scrapbook files compiled by Prof. Lai, which are valuable
primary sources used for his writings; and 3. Prof. Lai’s
personal bio and family history.

This website includes digitized rare books, statistics, and
the archive catalog about the Hong Kong catholic diocesan.

The Hopkins Archive was begun in 1968 with reel-to-reel
magnetic tape on an Uher portable recorder. Since then the
media has changed but the archive is still maintained. It
now consists of over three thousand hours of authentic
oral transmission on many scholarly and cultural aspects
of Tibetan Buddhism, including many traditional Buddhist
philosophical topics, Tibetan medicine, Tibetan history,
and so forth. The archive includes four hundred hours of
teachings by the Fourteenth Dalai Lama and thousands of
hours of teachings by numerous lamas of the last
generation of Buddhist scholars to be thoroughly trained
in Tibet.

The London Missionary Society's collection of
Chinese books has been digitized and made
available online by the National Library of
Australia. This special collection comprises over
500 printed books gathered by LMS missionaries
during the late Qing period. These include
missionary publications such as Christian tracts,
as well as non-missionary books, manuscript items,
books related to the Taiping Rebellion and so on.
These materials are interesting primary sources
for Chinese history and religion studies.

The Open Collections Program (OCP) is the \online window\
that showcase the scope and the breadth of the extraordinary
collections of Harvard University. OCP has created six
subject-specific, web-accessible collections that focus on
making available unique historical materials of Harvard.

Claude L Pickens, Jr. (1900-1985) and his wife, Elizabeth
Zwemer Pickens, were Christian missionaries of the China
Inland Mission (C.I.M.) and had a particular interest in the
category of China's Muslims who are now officially
designated as \Hui\ in China. This digital collection has
over 1,000 photos taken by Pickens, of Muslims and Christian
missionaries working among them in Western China in the
1920s and 1930s. In addition to those, supplemented
resources include several hundred books, pamphlets,
broadsides, etc., in several languages.

The Ricci Roundtable is a database developed and maintained
by the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History
at the University of San Francisco for the use of academic
research on the topic of Christianity in China. The database
has a strong collection of archival, bibliographic and
biographic resources on the history of Christian missions in
China during the past few centuries.