Oddities – Tsadra Conferences https://conference.tsadra.org Buddhist Conferences Wed, 26 Oct 2022 11:41:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.11 Oddities and Curiosities in Tibetan Translation https://conference.tsadra.org/session/oddities-and-curiosities-in-tibetan-translation/ Wed, 11 Apr 2018 06:00:43 +0000 http://conference-wp.tsadra.org/?post_type=session&p=14973 “What is an oddity,” you ask? How odd of you to ask! We all know what oddities are when we see them. It may be a subjective response, but it’s there all the same. The odd thing seems out of place, it sits there glaring out at you without an obvious explanation. Every problem has its solution, or so it’s sometimes said, but that doesn’t mean they always will be solved.

The co-organizers take turns presenting oddities from among their personal favorites. The range of possible oddities, which seems beyond all limit, were narrowed down to more manageable categories that included the following: 1. Oddities of script. 2. Oddities of Spelling. 3. Word oddities. 4. Odd identifications (problems with proper names). 5. Odd philosophical discussions. 6. Odd choices of quotations 7. Odd ways of filling numeric categories. And, as a final catchall category, we should add oddities of content. Our primary intention is to discuss literary examples, oddities found in Tibetan-language texts.

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