Online Dharma: Buddhist Translation Project 84000 Announces Branding and Website Refresh
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BDG News: Buddhist Scholars and Technologists to Gather in Austria for July Conference on AI and Human Identity
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📰 The Middle Position of a Scholar-Practitioner (A free, 9-page article from 2008)
Tags: #BuddhistStudies #Pedagogy #Religion
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/at-ease-in-btw_williams-duncan-ryuken
Buddhists scholar-practitioners have two major responsibilities vis-à-vis our students: 1) encourage students to “sympathetically understand” the tradition and 2) develop some critical perspective on a tradition with its lengthy history, multiplicity of sectarian forms, and great diversity of ways in which the religion has had and continues to have impact on culture, art, politics, and so forth.
📰 Exhibitions, Mass Culture, and China in the British Imagination in the 1920s (A free, 25-page article from 2021)
Tags: #BritishBuddhism #BuddhistStudies #Museums
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/hilditch-mcgill-chinese-palace-temple_ryder-lewis
It is possible that Hilditch asked Chinese residents in Manchester to assist him with the services but had been rejected, but their omission is more likely down to the fact he wanted to cement his status as the authority of the temple. By donning Chinese robes, Hilditch added a heightened sense of reality to the display than would have been created if he had worn English clothes, while simultaneously increasing his supposed authority; he played both museum guide and Buddhist Priest.
📰 A Response to the Readers (A free, 13-page article from 2010)
Tags: #Philosophy #BuddhistStudies
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/future-of-buddhist-past_lopez-donald-s
📰 The Buddhist Canon and the Canon of Buddhist Studies (A free, 23-page article from 2004)
Tags: #BuddhaQuotes #BuddhistStudies #Buddhist
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/buddhist-canon-and-canon-of-buddhist-studies_freiberger-oliver
The first part of the paper examines the role of the Buddhist canon in research and in teaching, the trend towards non-canonical sources, and the current affection for contemporary practice. As a textual scholar who works with canonical texts, I intend to point to some risks that are, in my view, inherent in that general trend.
📰 The Belgian Étienne Lamotte, Japanese Buddhologists, the Chinese Monk Yìnshùn 印順 and the Formation of a Global ‘*Dà Zhìdù Lùn* 大智度論 Scholarship’ (A free, 30-page article from 2019)
Tags: #Sutras #Modern #Madhyamaka #BuddhistStudies
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/reception-history-and-limits-of-interpretation_travagnin-stefania
Lamotte’s argument led to various debates that gave rise to a wide array of hypotheses on who the author of Dà Zhìdù Lùn could have been. The theory that Dà Zhìdù Lùn could have been a text not (or not only) written by Nāgārjuna reached Chinese Buddhist monks and scholars as well, including the monk Yìnshùn (1906-2005). This paper will show the impact of Western scholarship on East Asian Buddhism, highlight the (pluri)directionality of knowledge.
📰 On the Allure of Buddhist Relics (A free, 25-page article from 1999)
Tags: #TBT #Anthropology #BuddhistStudies #Buddhist
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/on-allure-of-buddhist-relics_sharf-rob
For many scholars who found themselves disenchanted with the romantisized and/or rationalized versions of Buddhism that once dominated the field, the discovery of relic and image worship was the smoking gun that provided irrefutable evidence that Buddhists are not bourgeois rationalists after all. The worship of relics exemplified the newfound otherness of Buddhism, for it would seem to involve the sanctification of that which is utterly profane and loathsome—the corporeal remains of the dead.
📰 Idle Thoughts on the Ideal Rendering of Buddhist Texts and Terminology (A free, 33-page article from 2012)
Tags: #BuddhistStudies #Translation
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/tempering-belles-infideles-and-promoting-jolies_deleanu-f
The paper argues for the suitability, or at least acceptability, of a translation style which I call jolie laide, i.e. a rendering which is not necessarily exquisite in its aesthetic quality but is as faithful as possible to the original and perfectly intelligible in the target language. This is not a mechanical process, and in order to meet these standards, the translator should allow for flexibility and make full use of the critical apparatus. I do not rule out, however, other rendering strategies, and the last part of my contribution illustrates the possibility of having jolies laides side by side with free translations. The article also contains an appendix on Dao’an’s‘five [points of permissible] deviation from the original and three [points which should remain] unchanged’ and Xuanzang’s‘five types [of Indic words which should] not be translated’.
BDG Feature: Y. Karuṇādāsa (1934–2026): An Intimate Remembrance
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