The Dharma's Gatekeepers - Couverture rigide

Jonathan C Gold

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9382565469 ISBN 13 : 9789382565468

Editeur : Divine Books

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Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

A study of the seminal Tibetan Buddhist work, Gateway to Learning.
The Dharma’s Gatekeepers offers an incisive analysis of one of the most important works in Tibetan Buddhist intellectual history: Sakya Paṇḍita’s Gateway to Learning (Mkhas pa ’jug pa’i sgo). Writing in a time when a distinctively Tibetan tradition of Buddhism was first emerging, Sakya Paṇḍita wanted to present Tibetan intellectuals with what he took to be an authentically Indian (and therefore, authentically Buddhist) understanding of the nature and tasks of intellectual life—with a view of how scholarship was understood and practiced in the great monastic colleges of India.
In The Dharma’s Gatekeepers, we see Sakya Paṇḍita building the intellectual foundation for Tibetan scholasticism through a series of subtle, brilliant, and quintessentially Buddhist arguments about the nature of learning itself, with his elaboration of a model of scholastic education skillfully drawing together ideas in Buddhist epistemology, philosophy of language, translation theory, hermeneutics, and literary theory. In this study of Sakya Paṇḍita’s remarkable work, Jonathan C. Gold shows that the Gateway to Learning addresses issues that remain of concern to contemporary intellectuals; this thirteenth-century work has much to contribute to our understanding of such issues as translation and translatability, theories of reading and authorship, the connections between religious values and academic institutions, and theories of language and literary aesthetics. The book includes a translation of significant parts of Sakya Paṇḍita’s text.
“Sa-paṇ played a central part in the transfer of Buddhist culture to Tibet. Gold’s book provides a valuable window into how this great scholar understood the enterprise of cultural translation in which he was engaged. It should be of interest not only to Tibetanists, but to many concerned with similar processes of cultural translation and adaptation in other contexts.” — Religions of South Asia
“Gold has taken us a step forward in the exploration of the Tibetan intellectual history, and particularly of Sakyapa learning.” — Journal of the American Oriental Society
“This book is a study of the Gateway to Learning ... The writing throughout is elegant and entertaining. The book is naturally of specialist interest, but it also deals with larger issues surrounding translation, religious authority and language. The way these have been approached will appeal to everyone interested in the history of religion and Indian literature.” — Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
“To its credit, this book poses a host of questions to the fields of translation studies, theoretical linguistics, and hermeneutics in addition to Indian and Tibetan Buddhist intellectual history.” — Journal of the American Academy of Religion

Biographie de l'auteur :

Jonathan C. Gold is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Drew University.

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