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I see this page needs some work. The top should contextualize this whole situation more. This is one of, if not THE most translated Buddhist text into English and it has been used to discuss translation on many occasions in print and in speeches. Ths page should also highlight this discussion and perhaps others from our translation conferences: https://www.shambhala.com/translating-the-way-of-the-bodhisattva/ - Gomez and others spoke about this in different ways at several events, we just need to identify which videos are relevant. Bonus content, Luis Gomez last public speech could be edited out of this longer video: https://conference.tsadra.org/session/approaches-to-translation-transmission/ | |||
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See Padmakara The Way of the Boddhisattva p.i-xxi
This page will include a discussion on methodological issues related to the translation of the Bodhicaryāvatāra into modern languages. In this discussion, we will identify key points that are particularly relevant for translators of Indian Buddhist treatises.
Marcus says:
I see this page needs some work. The top should contextualize this whole situation more. This is one of, if not THE most translated Buddhist text into English and it has been used to discuss translation on many occasions in print and in speeches. Ths page should also highlight this discussion and perhaps others from our translation conferences: https://www.shambhala.com/translating-the-way-of-the-bodhisattva/ - Gomez and others spoke about this in different ways at several events, we just need to identify which videos are relevant. Bonus content, Luis Gomez last public speech could be edited out of this longer video: https://conference.tsadra.org/session/approaches-to-translation-transmission/
"Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra is one of the most translated Buddhist texts."
Many translations of Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra, a Sanskrit Mahāyāna Buddhist text of seventh/eighth-century India, have been published since 1892. Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra is one of the few Indian Mahāyāna Buddhist texts available in Sanskrit and it was influential in Tibetan Buddhist schools. This article explores how translation of the Bodhicaryāvatāra is no longer the preserve of scholars but has moved to being carried out by Buddhist practitioners influenced by Tibetan schools of Buddhism. It shows how translators' motives for translating the text have reflected changing attitudes to Buddhism and its texts. Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra has been translated as a source of information, a literary work, an inspirational work and, with the rise of Western interest in Tibetan Buddhism in the late twentieth century, as a vehicle for the transmission of Buddhist teachings. Nevertheless, further scholarly investigation of the Sanskrit text of the Bodhicaryāvatāra remains to be done.
SOURCE: Nelson, Barbara. "Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra in Translation: A Century of Interpretation of a Sanskrit Mahāyāna Text." Journal of Religious History 40, no. 3 (2016): 405–27. DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12307
The titles listed in the bibliography below are useful sources to develop this page. Even if their main focus appears to be on different subject, they have been selected because they include valuable information on the topic of this page.
