Professor Emeritus Lewis Lancaster
Tibetan Buddhist Encyclopedia is now 14 years old
Our Encyclopedia recently received a wonderful opportunity for a major renewal on its 14th birthday . After many years of growing our Encyclopedia had become bit slow and sometimes even decided not to answer when people knocked on the door.
A very big thank you and blessings to Dmytro Rudiy (rudiy.nl) for his great work in upgrading the server, website and all of the infrastructure and helping make TBE fast and reliable again for everyone! 🙏🙏🙏
We kindly ask our readers to help us cover the cost of this important upgrade and also help with the ongoing costs of keeping the Encyclopedia alive and freely available.
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OM AH HUM VAJRA GURU PADMA SIDDHI HUM 🙏🙏🙏
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Lewis Lancaster, is a professor emeritus in the Department of East Asian Languages at the University of California at Berkeley and has been an adjunct professor at UWest since 1992, a specialist in the canons of Buddhist texts.
He was the first student to complete the Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies at the University of Wisconsin.
He taught at the University of California, Berkeley, for 33 years, with five years as Chair.
By means of a grant from the National Geographic Society, he and a group of students and faculty inventoried texts in monasteries among the Sherpa people in the Himalayas.
He then began to research the problems of converting Buddhist texts from Pali and Chinese into computer format, which resulted in major CD ROM databases.
That computer experience then led him to form an association of scholars called the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, which is housed on the Berkeley campus and has a thousand affiliates worldwide.
He is now President at Hsilai University in Rosemead. Dr. Lancaster has published over 55 articles and reviews and has edited or authored numerous books including Prajnaparamita and Related Systems,
The Korean Buddhist Canon, Buddhist Scriptures, Early Ch'an in China and Tibet, and Assimilation of Buddhism in Korea.
Professor Lancaster is the founder and Director of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI). ECAI (www.ecai.org) is promoting worldwide electronic access to quality research data.
ECAI is a partnership of technical specialists and the scholarly community dedicated to the support of scholarship through technology.
ECAI is building an infrastructure for retrieval of data over the Internet from servers located anywhere in the world.
Guided by the paradigm of the historical atlas, research data is indexed by time and place using temporally-enabled Geographic Information Systems software.
User queries retrieve and display data in GIS layers on a map-based interface, allowing comparisons across discipline, region, and time.
Professor Lewis Lancaster is also a supporter of Tibetan Buddhist Encyclopedia and a good friend of Vello Väärtnõu