Research infrastructure and corpus for the study of Chinese Buddhist, Taoist, and folk religious altar iconography using Relational-Functional Iconographic Grammar (RFIG).
Sam, A. L. Y. (2026). Relational–Functional Iconographic Grammar (RFIG): A working grammar for iconographic analysis in Chinese Buddhist, Taoist, and folk religious traditions (Version 1.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20278673
- DeityLens RFIG blog (public platform): https://mytemplebuddy.hcommons.org/
- Zenodo Archive: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20278673
- Altar iconography
- Ritual hierarchy
- Cosmological ordering
- Sinophone religious networks
notes/→ fieldwork observations by site and halldocs/→ RFIG framework specification and project objectivesdata/→ machine-readable RFIG corpus (CSV)images/→ temple photographs and diagrams