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Translating Buddhism from Tibetan

by Joe Wilson

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Published by Snow Lion Publications in Ithaca, N.Y., USA .
Written in

    Subjects:
  • Tibetan language -- Syntax.,
  • Tibetan language -- Word formation.,
  • Buddhist literature, Tibetan -- Translating.,
  • Tibetan language -- Readers -- Buddhism.,
  • Tibetan language -- Style.

  • Edition Notes

    Includes bibliographical references (p. [751]-763) and index.

    StatementJoe Bransford Wilson.
    Classifications
    LC ClassificationsPL3621 .W55 1992
    The Physical Object
    Paginationxxxviii, 772 p. :
    Number of Pages772
    ID Numbers
    Open LibraryOL1708046M
    ISBN 100937938343
    LC Control Number92009582

    Tibetan Buddhism (also Indo-Tibetan Buddhism) is the form of Buddhism practiced in Tibet where it is the dominant religion. It is also found in the regions surrounding the Himalayas (such as Bhutan, Ladakh, and Sikkim), much of Central Asia, the Southern Siberian regions such as Tuva, as well as Mongolia.. Tibetan Buddhism is a form of Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism stemming from the latest. Today we’re exploring subtleties of Tibetan Buddhism with Geshe Thupten Jinpa. He’s a philosopher, former monk, and, since , principal English translator and interpreter of the Dalai Lama. He’s created a project to bring Tibetan Buddhism’s classic texts into the world’s languages.

    I think this will be invaluable for the future, so I always encourage people when they’re translating to include the original Tibetan for the technical terms, or the Sanskrit. It can either be in the text or it can be in a note, so that people know what you are translating, and it can be put together with what people read in other materials. Best Buddhism Books Best Tibetan Buddhism Books Katinka Hesselink, Tibetan Buddhism is perhaps the best known type of Buddhism today, thanks to the Dalai Lama. I've found you the ten best and most popular books to get you started on understanding the tradition. From the Tibetan book of the Dead, to the Dalai Lama and Pema Chodron.

    The Tibetan king Songtsen Gampo (–50) laid the foundation for Tibetan Buddhism by building temples for the Buddhist images brought to Tibet by his Nepalese and Chinese wives and by having a script developed for translating Buddhist texts into Tibetan. LESSONS. 1. Introduction to Translation, Part 1. In this first lesson, you’ll hear Jinpa’s thoughts on the following points: (1) the importance of translation in general and, more specifically, how for Tibetan Buddhism in fact translation has been the very basis of its emergence; (2) what exactly a translator does, or to put it another way, what we mean by the word translation; and (3) the.


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Translating Buddhism from Tibetan: An Introduction to the Tibetan Literary Language and the Translation of Buddhist Texts from Tibetan Hardcover – January 1, by Joe B.

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This complete textbook on classical Tibetan is suitable for beginning or intermediate students. It begins with rules for reading writing and pronouncing Tibetan, gradually carrying the reader through the patterns seen in the formation of words and into the repeating patterns of Tibetan phrases, clauses, and sentences.

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Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. He is the author of Translating Buddhism from Tibetan. Wilson holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin and a PhD from the University of Virginia.

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