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Title:

Translating Buddhism : historical and contextual perspectives / edited by Alice Collett.

Publisher:

State University of New York Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

x, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Buddhist literature--South Asia--History and criticism.
Buddhist literature--South Asia--Translations into English.
Translators.
Translating and interpreting--Buddhism.--Buddhism.
Buddhist literature.
Translators.
South Asia.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Other Authors:

Collett, Alice, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Theravada Commentaries: Why, How, for Whom? / OSKAR VON HINU˜BER -- 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 Antevasini / ALICE COLLETT -- Translating Tirthikas: Enduring 'heresies' in Buddhist Translation / C.V. JONES -- Translating patĐicca-samuppada / DHIVAN THOMAS JONES -- Why Literal Meaning Is Insufficient? / A Study of Desanasisa Explanations in the Pali Commentaries / ARUNA GAMAGE.

Summary:

"Explores key questions about translations and translators of South Asian Buddhist texts, past and present"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1438482930
9781438482934

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1194960560

LCCN:

2020048633

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)