Geodata for Song Dynasty Chan Abbots with Heirs - v. 1.0

Geodata for members of the Chan Lineage who propagated heirs during Northern and Southern Song dynasties (as described in "Lamp Records") combined with numeric value for generation in the family tree and total number of heirs. This data is meant to study spatial distribution of Chan monks. Information compiled from a comparison of five Song dynasty Lamp Records and one Ming dynasty record (Xu chuandenglu). The geodata is from "Buddhist Studies Authority Database" digital atlas of historical places. Several records in the dataset are incomplete, reflecting unresolvable ambiguity in a few place-names in Lamp Records. Chinese characters encoded UTF8. Please use data responsibly, kindly send corrections and suggestions, and contact the author to share your results!

两宋时期（北宋与南宋）传法嗣的禅宗法脉成员地理数据（如《灯录》所述），并附有家谱中的世代数值及嗣法者总数。该数据旨在研究禅宗僧侣的空间分布特征。信息通过比对五部宋代灯录与一部明代灯录《续传灯录》（Xu chuandenglu）汇编而成。地理数据来源于‘佛教研究权威数据库’（Buddhist Studies Authority Database）的历史地名数字地图集。数据集中部分记录存在缺失，反映出灯录中若干地名存在无法解决的歧义。汉字编码格式为UTF8。请负责任地使用本数据，若有修正意见或建议，敬请告知；如欲分享研究成果，烦请联系作者！