Gavin Kilty – Tsadra Conferences https://conference.tsadra.org Buddhist Conferences Thu, 17 Nov 2022 06:36:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.11 Special Address: The 2017 Shantarakshita Award https://conference.tsadra.org/session/special-address-2017-shantarakshita-award/ Sat, 07 Apr 2018 03:32:24 +0000 http://conference-wp.tsadra.org/?post_type=session&p=14969 The inaugural Shantarakshita Award was presented by Eric Colombel and Marcus Perman of Tsadra Foundation and received by Bryan Cuevas (3rd) for The All-Pervading Melodious Drumbeat (Penguin Random House, 2015), Wulstan Fletcher and Helena Blankeleder (2nd) for Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book Two (Shambhala Publications, 2013), and Gavin Kilty (1st) for A Lamp to Illuminate the Five Stages (Library of Tibetan Classics, Wisdom Publications, 2013). As the first place winner of the inaugural award, Gavin Kilty addressed the assembly with heartfelt words of thanks to his teachers, employers, and editors (Thupten Jinpa and David Kittelstrom) and shared a bit about his his love of translation and of the great masters who influenced him.

The Shantarakshita Award

]]> Traduttore, Traditore: The Role of the Translator https://conference.tsadra.org/session/traduttore-traditore-the-role-of-the-translator/ Sun, 25 Mar 2018 03:13:11 +0000 http://conference-wp.tsadra.org/?post_type=session&p=14965 “Traduttore, Traditore” is an Italian adage that means “translator, traitor.” In this panel on the roles of translators, translators of the Tibetan tradition mingle with scholars of Buddhism and discuss a range of topics from the possibility of the invisibility of the translator and the role of real-time interpreters to philosophical ideas about representation.

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