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The Foundational Text Database Committee

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Situation Former study
Details The Foundational Text Database Committee produced text databases and indexed vocabulary for a number of foundational texts of the Zen school.
         1987 Collation of the Jingde-era Record of the Lamp and Compendium of the Five Lamps.
         1988 Digitalization of the thirty-fascicle Tōzen-ji edition of the Jingde-era Record of the Lamp, with almost 30,000 searchable entries. This project was supported by a grant from the Ministry of Education.
         1989 Tōzen-ji edition of the Jingde-era Record of the Lamp and Cultivation of the Record of Xutang (with index) 虚堂録犂耕・附索引 published in China.
         1990 Completion of the Tōzen-ji edition of the Jingde-era Record of the Lamp; Cultivation of the Record of Xutang (with index); and Index to the Record of Xutang.
         1991 Completion of the Index to the Blue Cliff Record, Index to Tales from the Land of Locust-tree Tranquility 槐安国語索引, Index to Aiding the Evil of the Verses in Praise of the Five Houses of the True School 五家正宗賛助桀索引, and Index to Verses in Praise of the Five Houses of the True School.
         1992 Completion of the Record of Tranquility 従容録.
         1993 Completion of the Index to Jingde-era Record of the Lamp.
         1994 Completion of the Annals of the Ancestral Hall 祖堂集 and the Index to the Annals of the Ancestral Hall, 14 volumes.
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Group leader: Yoshizawa Katsuhiro芳沢勝弘
Group Members: Nōnin Kōdō 能仁晃道, Nishimura Egaku 西村惠学, Li Jianhua 李建華.