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