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|text=In their preface to the revised edition of their translation of the ''Bodhicaryāvatāra'', ''The Way of the Bodhisattva'', Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher of the Padmakara Translation Group discuss various issues involved in the translation of this classic text. | |text=In their preface to the revised edition of their translation of the ''Bodhicaryāvatāra'', ''The Way of the Bodhisattva'', Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher of the Padmakara Translation Group discuss various issues involved in the translation of this classic text. | ||
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'''<big>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. | |||
"Śāntideva's ''Bodhicaryāvatāra'' is one of the most translated Buddhist texts." (Nelson 2016). Not only that, it is one of the most discussed work by translators when speaking about translation methodology, including as a basis of multiple workshops and conferences by academics. In 2005, Nicole Martinez Melis wrote a descriptive analysis of several translations of the text, in part because of "... a significant publishing event...the appearance of seven translations in the space of just five years, between 1992 and 1997" (Melis 2005). Since then, so many translations have appeared in so many languages it is difficult to count, but through our research here, we estimate that there have been no less than 35 publications including a complete translation of the text ''since 1997''. Currently, there are more than 74 complete translations and 33 partial translations of the text in our archive. There may be upwards of 140 translations of Cervantes' Don Quixote, and it may only be a matter of decades before we see that number of translations of Śāntideva. | |||
*Melis, Nicole Martinez. "The Bodhicaryāvatāra: A Buddhist Treatise Translated into Western Languages." In Less Translated Languages, edited by Albert Branchadell and Lovell Margaret West, 207–24. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2005. | |||
*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. | |||
Marcus says: "Śāntideva's ''Bodhicaryāvatāra'' is one of the most translated Buddhist texts." (Nelson 2016). Not only that, it is one of the most discussed work by translators when speaking about translation methodology, including as a basis of multiple workshops and conferences by academics. | |||
[[Topics/Translation]] | [[Topics/Translation]] and Subtheme Translation methodology. | ||
This page needs 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/ | This page needs 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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Collett, Alice. ed. Translating Buddhism: Historical and Contextual Perspectives. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press. 2021. | Collett, Alice. ed. Translating Buddhism: Historical and Contextual Perspectives. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press. 2021. | ||
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See [https://research.tsadra.org/index.php/The_Way_of_the_Bodhisattva_(2008) Padmakara The Way of the Boddhisattva] p.i-xxi | |||
When the first edition of ''The Way of the Bodhisattva'' was published in 1997, | When the first edition of ''The Way of the Bodhisattva'' was published in 1997, | ||
it was stated that the commentary of the Nyingma master Khenpo Kunzang Pelden (1872-1943) had been consulted for the elucidation of difficult | it was stated that the commentary of the Nyingma master Khenpo Kunzang Pelden (1872-1943) had been consulted for the elucidation of difficult | ||
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