Cross-cultural transmission of Buddhist texts : theories and practices of translation / edited by Dorji Wangchuk.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Dorji Wangchuk, 1969- editor.

Universität Hamburg. Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, publisher.

Conference Name:

International Symposium on "Cross-Cultural Transmission of Buddhist Texts: Theories and Practices of Translation" (2012 : Hamburg, Germany)

Series:

Indian and Tibetan studies (Hamburg, Germany) ; 5.

Indian and Tibetan studies ; 5

Language:

Chinese

English

Sanskrit

Tibetan

Subjects (All):

Buddhist literature--Translations--History and criticism--Congresses.

Buddhist literature.

Translations.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xi, 372 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Distribution:

New Delhi, India : Distribution: Aditya Prakashan.

Place of Publication:

Hamburg : Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Universität Hamburg, 2016.

Language Note:

Includes passages in Chinese, Sanskrit roman and Tibetan wylie.

Contents:

Translation as proofs and polemics of authentication: rNying ma versus gSar ma translation practices / Orna Almogi

Gāndhārī and the Early Chinese Buddhist Translations: reconsidering an old hypothesis in light of new finds / Daniel Boucher

From Sanskrit to Chinese and back again: remarks on Xuanzang's translations of the Yogācārabhūmi and closely related philosophical treatises / Martin Delhey

Multiple translations from Sanskrit into Tibetan / Michael Hahn

A cultural approach to the study of Xuanzang / Rachel Lung

The Kāraka Section of Rāmacandra's Prakriyākaumudī: a comparative study of the Sanskrit original and the Tibetan and Mongolian translations / Hong Luo

Matching stellar ideas to the stars: remarks on the translation of Indian Jyotiṣa in the Chinese Buddhist Canon / Bill M. Mak

On the fence between two wor(l)ds: theory and practice in translating Indian and Indo-Tibetan texts / Florinda de Semini & Francesco Sferra

On translating Buddhist texts: a survey and some reflections / David Seyfort Ruegg

Chinese translations of Tibetan Tantric Buddhist texts in Tangut Xia, Mongol Yuan and Chinese Ming Dynasties / Weirong Shen

Peering through a funhouse mirror: trying to read Indic texts through Tibetan and Chinese translations / Jonathan A. Silk

On the permeable boundary between exegesis and scripture in Late Tantric Buddhist literature / Péter-Dániel Szántó

A rationale for Buddhist textual scholarship / Dorji Wangchuk

How did Tibetans learn a new text from the text's translators and comment on it? The Case of Zhang Thang sag pa (Twelfth Century) / Chizuko Yoshimizu.

Notes:

"The present volume mostly consists of scholarly contribution by participants (arranged in alphabetical order) of the above-mentioned symposium 'Cross-Cultural Transmission of Buddhist Texts: Theories and Practices of Translation,' which took place in Hamburg in 2012."--Page x.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783945151044

394515104X

OCLC:

969974373