Marcus Bingenheimer: AI and Total Translation

Marcus Bingenheimer: AI and Total Translation

From The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford by The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford

August 1, 2025 · 43 min · Season 1 · Episode 5

About this episode

Marcus Bingenheimer discusses the impact of AI and Digital Humanities on scholarship and the transmission of religious ideas.

Marcus Bingenheimer talks about why new tools in the Digital Humanities demand new genres of scholarship, what network analysis reveals about the transmission of religious ideas in medieval China, and how AI’s large language models will help arcane texts reach a new global readership. Marcus Bingenheimer is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion at Temple University in Philadelphia. He taught Buddhism and Digital Humanities in Taiwan at Dharma Drum (2005 to 2011) and held visiting positions and fellowships at universities in Korea, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, and France. Since 2001 he has supervised various projects concerning the digitization of Buddhist culture. His main research interests are the history and historiography of Buddhism, early sūtra literature, and how to apply computational approaches to research in the Humanities. He has published some  sixty peer-reviewed articles and a handful of books . Interview by Miles Osgood.

People in this episode

Host: Miles Osgood

Guest: Marcus Bingenheimer

Topics covered

  • AI
  • Digital Humanities
  • network analysis
  • medieval China
  • Buddhism
  • large language models

Keywords

  • scholarship
  • religious ideas
  • arcane texts
  • global readership

Mentioned in this episode

Products: large language models

Places: China, Philadelphia, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, France

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