https://conference.tsadra.org Buddhist Conferences Thu, 17 Nov 2022 06:34:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.11 https://conference.tsadra.org/session/the-proto-history-of-buddhist-translation-from-gandhari-and-pali-to-han-dynasty-chinese/ Fri, 20 Apr 2018 06:00:05 +0000 http://conference-wp.tsadra.org/?post_type=session&p=14987 Discussions of the history of Buddhist translation usually begin with China, where in the middle of the second century Buddhist scriptures were translated into a non-Indian language for the first time. Yet the process of translation itself began many centuries earlier, when the words of the Buddha were rendered into a multitude of Indian vernaculars. Beginning with a brief sketch of these intra-Indian translations, I will then turn to the earliest Chinese Buddhist translations, focusing on the variety of “translation policies” used by their second-century translators and comparing them with the strategies subsequently employed in Tibet and elsewhere. I will conclude with a few remarks on the special challenges posed by translating these foundational works into English, in particular how best to proceed when “translating a translation.”

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