Presented by: Cathy Wang
Abstract: This talk reconsiders the methodological orientation of Buddhist studies, which has traditionally emphasized intratextual and intertextual analyses—even when enhanced by AI assisted techniques such as LLM-based linguistic tagging, conceptual annotation, and sentiment analysis. I propose expanding this scope toward a contextual ecosystem that situates Buddhist
texts as generative “seeds” cultivating interdisciplinary “landscapes”. By integrating translation studies, management theories, and digital humanities within a STEMAH framework, this approach not only recontextualizes Buddhist textuality in the age of AI but also envisions reciprocal epistemic growth across the sciences and the humanities.