This is the website for the Temple Gazetteer Project at Dharma Drum Buddhist College 法鼓佛教學院. The project is funded by the Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies 中華佛學研究所.
Gazetteers or local histories are a distinct genre of Chinese historiography. Usually
written by scholars interested in a region, city or temple, gazetteers are
compilations of a variety of texts. They are treasure houses containing topographical descriptions, biographies, poems, maps, portraits, miracle stories and much more. The aim of the project is to tap into this wealth of information in order to deepen our understanding of Chinese Buddhist history.
地方志或地方性歷史在中國史料中是一個很獨特的文體，通常是對於區域、城市或寺院有興趣的學者寫成。地方志由各式各樣的文本編輯而成，是一個很重要的珍藏，其中包含了地方的描述、傳記、詩集、地圖、人像及感應故事等。此專案的目的，是藉由接觸這些珍貴資訊，以便對中國佛教歷史有更深的了解。
The gazetteers collected here stem mainly from two twentieth century compilations of woodblock reprints.
地方志的收藏主要由2個20世紀木刻版的編輯叢書組成:
Our aim is to digitize more than hundred fifty temple gazetteers until 2010 and make the image database freely available. At least ten gazetteers will be available as full text, marked up for dates, person and place names. This data, together with that from other projects is aggregated in our authority databases. Until 2011 we will continue to work on this archive in various ways. We will link its content to previous research on gazetteers, conduct bibliographical research on the edition history of the gazetteers. We also hope to collect additional material (photos, videos, travelogues etc.) to enrich the content.
至2010年寺志數位化的目標將超過150座，且圖檔資料庫得以自由使用。另外，至少有10個方志全文化，其中有時間、人物及地點的標記與權威資料庫相結合。2011年更以多樣的方式繼續作業；連結文本至先前的檢索，維護目錄、收集更多的照片、影片及旅行記錄片等，以豐富其內容。
Temple Gazetteer Team: Marcus Bingenheimer, Duncan Hua 花金地, April Ke 柯春玉, Zhimiao Lin 林智妙, Chuanqin Peng 彭川芩, Xiuwen Wang 王秀雯, Erica Yu 游美燕.
