Search Chinese Texts
Search historical Chinese texts for references to deities, concepts, and mythological elements.
Supports both Chinese characters (简体/繁體) and Pinyin romanization
📚 Available Corpora
Buddhist Sutras Corpus: 17 Mahayana Buddhist sutras and mantras with Chinese text and Pinyin. Includes the Heart Sutra (心经), Great Compassion Mantra (大悲咒), and other devotional texts featuring Buddhist deities like Guanyin (观音) and concepts like emptiness (空) and dharma (法).
Historical Uyghur-Chinese Corpus: 279 bilingual documents from the Qing dynasty to modern era. Contains administrative and legal texts with cultural references to imperial authority (皇, 帝), heaven (天), and traditional concepts.
Note: Classical Chinese mythology texts (Daodejing, Zhuangzi, Shan Hai Jing, I Ching) are not yet available in our corpus collection. The Buddhist texts provide the most relevant mythological content, particularly for Guanyin and Buddhist-Daoist syncretism.
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