https://conference.tsadra.org Buddhist Conferences Thu, 08 Dec 2022 04:37:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.11 https://conference.tsadra.org/session/translation-fidelity-or-intervention-when-should-translators-sanitize-misogyny-explain-it-reproduce-it-or-refuse-to-translate-it/ Fri, 18 Nov 2022 09:10:02 +0000 https://conference.tsadra.org/?post_type=session&p=18276 https://conference.tsadra.org/session/rasa-theory-and-affect/ Wed, 02 Jan 2019 08:10:23 +0000 http://conference-wp.tsadra.org/?post_type=session&p=17240 Nancy Lin (84000) and Annabella Pitkin (Lehigh) lead a rich discussion about how rasa and affect theories might help translators of Tibetan appreciate and communicate about art and literature in English, particularly regarding the more subtle aspects of tone, mood, and feeling in a given work. Nancy begins by facilitating a discussion of a particular verse to develop a shared vocabulary for rasa theory. She then presents potential understandings of rasa through consideration of Bharata’s Treatise on Drama and Daṇḍin’s Mirror of Poetry and employs this shared vocabulary in a conversation about the work of Tibetan authors. Annabella poses compelling questions about how we describe the indescribable experience and how we might valorize the experience we have when reading or translating from the Tibetan in order to reproduce that experience in English. The facilitators suggest that making efforts toward developing an integral vocabulary for rasa theory and affect theory could help translators continue to deepen the richness of description for emotional experience.

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