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Translating Buddhism : historical and contextual perspectives /

Explores key questions about translations and translators of south Asian Buddhist texts, past and present.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Collett, Alice (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Buddhist literature > South Asia > History and criticism.
Buddhist literature > South Asia > Translations into English.
Translators.
Translating and interpreting > Religious aspects > Buddhism.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Texts: Translation in Search of a Text: The Craving for Stability / COLLETT COX
  • Translating the Buddha's Body / NATALIE GUMMER
  • On Reading Vinaya: Feminist History, Hermeneutics, and Translating the Female Body / AMY PARIS LANGENBERG
  • Translators: Translating the Theravāda Commentaries: Why, How, for Whom? / OSKAR VON HINÜBER
  • The Impact of Nineteenth Century Missionary Translations of Theravada Buddhist Texts / ELIZABETH HARRIS
  • Words or Terms? Buddhist 'translationese' and the Nature of the Buddhist Sanskrit Lexicon / LIGEIA LUGLI
  • Words: Translation and Historical Context: Interpretations of Antevāsinī / ALICE COLLETT
  • Translating Tīrthikas: Enduring 'heresies' in Buddhist Translation / C.V. JONES
  • Translating paṭicca-samuppāda / DHIVAN THOMAS JONES
  • Why Literal Meaning Is Insufficient? / A Study of Desanāsīsa Explanations in the Pāli Commentaries / ARUNA GAMAGE.