BuddhaNexus/buddhanexus-frontend

import { customElement, html, LitElement } from 'lit-element';

import styles from './../static-view.styles';

@customElement('introduction-view')
export class IntroductionView extends LitElement {
  static get styles() {
    return [styles];
  }

  render() {
    return html`
      <div class="static-page-container">
        <div class="main-border">
          <div class="main-content">
            <h1>INTRODUCTION</h1>
            <p>
              The evolution of Buddhist scriptures and the formation of the
              various Buddhist canons are complex processes that often stretch
              over a long period of time and involve numerous aspects of the
              societies in which they take place. Understanding these two
              related processes is crucial to our study of the history of
              Buddhism in general and of Buddhist ideas in particular. It is
              also instrumental in gaining an appreciation for the impact of
              social and cultural phenomena on intellectual and
              religio-philosophical developments and vice versa. It will
              necessarily mean at times shedding light on various issues related
              to these two processes, both on the macro and micro levels, such
              as the existence of intellectual networks, various stages in the
              evolution of a specific scripture, intertextuality between various
              scriptures, the linkage between treatises and scriptures, and the
              impact of various social and political aspects of society on both
              the evolution of scriptures and the formation of canons.
            </p>
            <p>
              The first step towards a better understanding of the history of
              composition of individual texts, on the one hand, and the
              emergence of entire corpora of Buddhist works, on the other, is to
              locate in the various texts and textual corpora (approximate)
              textual matches and to study them from various angles. These
              textual matches may be cases of either acknowledged citations or
              “borrowed” textual passages with no attribution. Until not very
              long ago, such matches were searched for manually, but with the
              advent of computer technology, coupled with the ongoing
              digitization of Buddhist texts, faster and more accurate methods
              have been developed. BuddhaNexus is a powerful tool aimed at
              facilitating the study of the evolution of Buddhist scriptures and
              the formation of the various Buddhist canons by exploiting
              artificial neural networks in order to locate (approximate)
              textual matches.
            </p>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    `;
  }
}