Is This the End of (Buddhist) Philology as We Know It? If So, What’s Next?
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I delivered a hybrid lecture at the International Institute for Asian Studies at Leiden University. With rapidly growing digital collections and increasingly powerful AI and information-retrieval tools, textual Buddhist Studies is undergoing a paradigm shift. The talk reflected on what this shift means for the future of the field and the role of philological scholarship in an age of generative AI.