Collett Translating Buddhism

Historical and Contextual Perspectives
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8295-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Collett, Alice

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I: Texts

1. Translation in Search of a Text: The Craving for Stability
Collett Cox

2. Translating the Buddha's Body
Natalie Gummer

3. On Reading Vinaya: Feminist History, Hermeneutics, and Translating the Female Body
Amy Paris Langenberg

Part II: Translators

4. Translating the Theravada Commentaries: Why, How, for Whom?
Oskar von Hinüber

5. The Impact of Nineteenth-Century Missionary Translations of Theravada Buddhist Texts
Elizabeth Harris

6. Words or Terms? Models of Terminology and the Translation of Buddhist Sanskrit Vocabulary
Ligeia Lugli

Part III: Words

7. Translation and Historical Context: Interpretations of Antevasini
Alice Collett

8. Translating the Tirthika: Enduring "Heresy" in Buddhist Studies
C. V. Jones

9. Translating Paticca-samuppada in Early Buddhism
Dhivan Thomas Jones

10. Why Is Literal Meaning Insufficient? A Study of Desanasisa Explanations in the Pali Commentaries
Aruna Gamage

Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alice Collett is the author of Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns: Biographies as History and editor of Women in Early Indian Buddhism: Comparative Textual Studies.