DharmaNexus as a Multilingual Graph of Buddhist Intertextuality: Design Choices, Research Uses, and Future Applications
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I gave a guest lecture at the Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies on the invitation of Charles DiSimone, as part of the Gandhāra Corpora Lecture Series and the Spring 2026 Permanent Training in Buddhist Studies. The talk examined DharmaNexus as a database tracking intertextual relationships between passages across languages and sources, discussed key design choices and how intertextual relationships are determined and represented, demonstrated research applications for discovering parallels in Buddhist texts, and addressed limitations of AI-assisted multilingual systems in this context.