Translating Buddhism: Historical and Contextual Perspectives - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1438482949 ISBN 13 : 9781438482941

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2022

Synopsis

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

Although many Buddhist studies scholars spend a great deal of their time involved in acts of translation, to date not much has been published that examines the key questions, problems, and difficulties faced by translators of South Asian Buddhist texts and epigraphs. Translating Buddhism seeks to address this omission. The essays collected here represent a burgeoning attempt to begin to shape the subfield of translation studies within Buddhist studies, whereby scholars actively challenge primary routine decisions and basic assumptions. Exploring questions including how interpretive translators can be and how cultural and social norms affect translations, the book draws on the broad experiences of its contributors-all of whom are translators themselves-who bring different themes to the table. Each chapter can be used either independently or as part of the whole to engender reflections on the process of translation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1438482949
• ISBN 13: 9781438482941
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 302
• Éditeur: Collett Alice
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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