https://conference.tsadra.org Buddhist Conferences Thu, 08 Dec 2022 04:37:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.11 https://conference.tsadra.org/session/reflections-on-translating-womens-lives-and-teachings-in-the-tibetan-buddhist-tradition/ Fri, 18 Nov 2022 08:09:58 +0000 https://conference.tsadra.org/?post_type=session&p=18285 https://conference.tsadra.org/session/vocabularies-of-longing/ Wed, 02 Jan 2019 08:16:17 +0000 http://conference-wp.tsadra.org/?post_type=session&p=17230 How do the translator and the reader work with emotion flowing from text? Sarah Jacoby (Northwestern) and Lara Braitstein (McGill) pose questions and present examples from Tibetan poetry in this breakout session convened on the first morning of the 2018 Lotsawa Translation Workshop. Sarah discusses how we move from literature to life if literary theory maintains that the stories are only words on a page. She explores the intersubjective encounter with what we read and how emotion can be decoded when considering the work’s literary origins and historical context, then offers some tips for translators to work with the emotional register. Lara considers emotional register from the Indic and Tibetan perspective and the translator’s job in creating a new emotional community. The group then considers the translator’s effect on the way emotion is embraced in the target language and the responsibility of reciprocity of translation work.

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