VISUALIZING BUDDHISM IN TIME AND PLACE

Jeanette Zerneke, University of California, Berkeley

ECAI has worked with affiliates for over 10 years to develop Cultural Atlases and methods of visualizing cultural information in the context of time and place. Now we have begun to explore the possibilities of using the new digital earth systems such as Google Earth to visualize cultural information and history. This presentation will focus on examples using Buddhist information and history. Several ways to visualize Buddhist materials will be included.

ECAI has also developed a Cultural Atlas Portal to bring together separate projects into a single interface. A similar integration of projects focusing on Buddhist history will be demonstrated.  This integration may begin to provide a new integrated way to view the historical development of Buddhism.