Translating Buddhism: Historical and Contextual Perspectives

304 Pages·2021·2.421 MB·English

by  Alice Collett

Translating Buddhism

Translating Buddhism
HISTORICAL AND CONTEXTUAL PERSPECTIVES
Edited by
ALICE COLLETT
Cover: Palm-leaf manuscripts, Sarasvati Mahal Library, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Name: Collett, Alice, editor.
Title: Translating Buddhism : historical and contextual perspectives / Alice Collett.
Description: Albany : State University of New York, 2021. | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020048633 (print) | LCCN 2020048634 (ebook) | ISBN
9781438482934 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781438482958 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Buddhist Literature—South Asia—History and criticism. |
Buddhist Literature—South Asia—Translations into English. | Translators. |
Translating and interpreting—Religious aspects—Buddhism.
Classification: LCC BQ1029.S64 T73 2021 (print) | LCC BQ1029.S64 (ebook) |
DDC 418/.03294382—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020048633
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Contents
Abbreviations vii
Introduction 1
PART I. TEXTS
Chapter 1
Translation in Search of a Text: The Craving for Stability 19
Collett Cox
Chapter 2
Translating the Buddha’s Body 49
Natalie Gummer
Chapter 3
On Reading Vinaya: Feminist History, Hermeneutics,
and Translating the Female Body 69
Amy Paris Langenberg
PART II. TRANSLATORS
Chapter 4
Translating the Theravāda Commentaries: Why, How, for Whom? 109
Oskar von Hinüber
vi Contents
Chapter 5
The Impact of Nineteenth-Century Missionary Translations of
Theravada Buddhist Texts 127
Elizabeth Harris
Chapter 6
Words or Terms? Models of Terminology and the Translation
of Buddhist Sanskrit Vocabulary 149
Ligeia Lugli
PART III. WORDS
Chapter 7
Translation and Historical Context: Interpretations of Antevāsinī 175
Alice Collett
Chapter 8
Translating the Tīrthika: Enduring “Heresy” in Buddhist Studies 195
C. V. Jones
Chapter 9
Translating Paṭicca-samuppāda in Early Buddhism 227
Dhivan Thomas Jones
Chapter 10
Why Is Literal Meaning Insufficient? A Study of Desanāsīsa
Explanations in the Pāli Commentaries 259
Aruna Gamage
Contributors 283
Index 287
Abbreviations
AKB Abhidharmakośabhāṣyam
AN Aṅguttaranikāya
AN-a. Aṅguttaranikāya-aṭṭhakathā (Manorathapūraṇī)
BGVNS Bodhisattvagocaropāyaviṣayavikurvāṇanirdeśasūtra
BL British Library Collection, Early Buddhist Gāndhārī
Manuscripts
DN Dīghanikāya
DN-a. Dīghanikāya-aṭṭhakathā (Sumaṅgalavilāsinī)
DN-aṭ. Dīghanikāya-aṭṭhakathā-ṭīkā (Līnatthavaṇṇanā)
Dhp. Dhammapada
Dhp-a. Dhammapada-aṭṭhakathā
Dhs. Dhammasaṅgaṇī
Dhs-a. Dhammasaṅgaṇī-aṭṭhakathā (Atthasālinī)
Dhs-anṭ. Dhammasaṅgaṇī-anu-ṭīkā
Dhs-mṭ. Dhammasaṅgaṇī-mūla-ṭīkā
Dīp. Dīpavaṃsa
G. Gāndhārī
HPL Handbook of Pāli Literature
vii
viii Abbreviations
Itv. Itivuttaka
Itv-a. Itivuttaka-aṭṭhakathā (Paramatthadīpanī)
J. Jātaka
J-a. Jātaka-aṭṭhakathā
Kv. Kathāvatthu
Kv-a. Kathāvatthu-aṭṭhakathā (Paramatthadīpanī)
MĀ Madhyama-āgama
Mhv. Mahāvaṃsa
MN Majjhimanikāya
MN-a. Majjhimanikāya-aṭṭhakathā (Papañcasūdanī)
MN-aṭ. Majjhimanikāya-aṭṭhakathā-ṭīkā (Līnatthavaṇṇanā)
Mil. Milindapañha
Nett. Nettippakaraṇa
Nett-ṭ. Nettippakaraṇa-ṭīkā
Nidd. I Mahāniddesa
Nidd. II Cullaniddesa
P. Pāli
Ppk-anṭ. Pañcappakaraṇa-anu-ṭīkā
Ps. Papañcasūdanī
PTS Pali Text Society
Pṭsm. Paṭisambhidāmagga
Pṭsm-a. Paṭisambhidāmagga-aṭṭhakathā (Saddhammappakāsinī)
RGVV Ratnagotravibhāgavyākhyā
Skt. Sanskrit
Sp. Samantapāsādikā
Sp-ṭ. Samantapāsādikā-ṭika
Abbreviations ix
Spk Sāratthappakāsinī
SN Saṃyuttanikāya
SN-a. Saṃyuttanikāya-aṭṭhakathā (Sāratthappakāsinī)
SN-aṭ. Saṃyuttanikāya-aṭṭhakathā-ṭīkā (Līnatthavaṇṇanā)
Sd-ṭ. Sāratthadīpanī-ṭīkā
Sv. Sumaṅgalavilāsinī
T. Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō 大正新脩大藏經
Th. Theragāthā
Th-a. Theragāthā-aṭṭhakathā (Paramatthadīpanī)
Tib. Tibetan
Thi. Therīgāthā
Ud. Udāna
Ud-a. Udāna-aṭṭhakathā (Paramatthadīpanī)
V-a. Vinaya-aṭṭhakathā (Samantapāsādikā)
Vibh. Vibhaṅga
Vin. Vinaya-piṭaka
Vism. Visuddhimagga
Vism-ṭ. Visuddhimagga-ṭīkā (Paramatthamañjūsā)
Vjb. Vajirabuddhi-ṭīkā
Ymk. Yamaka
All references to Pāli texts in this volume are to the Pali Text Society edi-
tions, unless otherwise stated.
Dictionaries
Apte Apte, Vaman Shivaram. 1890. The Practical Sanskrit-English
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