Alice Collett is the author of Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns: Biographies as History and editor of Women in Early Indian Buddhism: Comparative Textual Studies.

"This volume is an inspiring read for scholars/translators who wish to interpret Buddhism in a different light." — Religious Studies Review"Translating Buddhism offers excellent research and insights into many of the issues and questions that translators of early Buddhist texts confront in their commitment to reflect core meanings. These analyses offer important contributions to Buddhist studies, and to the larger on-going conversation about how to facilitate understanding across languages, time periods, and traditions. Translators interested in historical and religious texts in particular will find many points of connection with the writers of Translating Buddhism." —Translation Studies"…Collett has brought together an illuminating collection that advances the subfield of translation studies within Buddhist studies … Translating Buddhism: Historical and Contextual Perspectives offers both an immensely generative reflection on working with primary source material in classical languages and the complex hermeneutical choices that arise in translation." — Reading Religion

• AbbreviationsIntroductionPart I: Texts1. Translation in Search of a Text: The Craving for StabilityCollett Cox2. Translating the Buddha's BodyNatalie Gummer3. On Reading Vinaya: Feminist History, Hermeneutics, and Translating the Female BodyAmy Paris LangenbergPart II: Translators4. Translating the Theravāda Commentaries: Why, How, for Whom?Oskar von Hinüber5. The Impact of Nineteenth-Century Missionary Translations of Theravada Buddhist TextsElizabeth Harris6. Words or Terms? Models of Terminology and the Translation of Buddhist Sanskrit VocabularyLigeia LugliPart III: Words7. Translation and Historical Context: Interpretations of AntevāsinīAlice Collett8. Translating the Tīrthika: Enduring "Heresy" in Buddhist StudiesC. V. Jones9. Translating Paṭicca-samuppāda in Early BuddhismDhivan Thomas Jones10. Why Is Literal Meaning Insufficient? A Study of Desanāsīsa Explanations in the Pāli CommentariesAruna GamageContributorsIndex

Alice Collett is the author of Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns: Biographies as History and editor of Women in Early Indian Buddhism: Comparative Textual Studies.

"This volume is an inspiring read for scholars/translators who wish to interpret Buddhism in a different light." — Religious Studies Review"Translating Buddhism offers excellent research and insights into many of the issues and questions that translators of early Buddhist texts confront in their commitment to reflect core meanings. These analyses offer important contributions to Buddhist studies, and to the larger on-going conversation about how to facilitate understanding across languages, time periods, and traditions. Translators interested in historical and religious texts in particular will find many points of connection with the writers of Translating Buddhism." —Translation Studies"…Collett has brought together an illuminating collection that advances the subfield of translation studies within Buddhist studies … Translating Buddhism: Historical and Contextual Perspectives offers both an immensely generative reflection on working with primary source material in classical languages and the complex hermeneutical choices that arise in translation." — Reading Religion

• AbbreviationsIntroductionPart I: Texts1. Translation in Search of a Text: The Craving for StabilityCollett Cox2. Translating the Buddha's BodyNatalie Gummer3. On Reading Vinaya: Feminist History, Hermeneutics, and Translating the Female BodyAmy Paris LangenbergPart II: Translators4. Translating the Theravāda Commentaries: Why, How, for Whom?Oskar von Hinüber5. The Impact of Nineteenth-Century Missionary Translations of Theravada Buddhist TextsElizabeth Harris6. Words or Terms? Models of Terminology and the Translation of Buddhist Sanskrit VocabularyLigeia LugliPart III: Words7. Translation and Historical Context: Interpretations of AntevāsinīAlice Collett8. Translating the Tīrthika: Enduring "Heresy" in Buddhist StudiesC. V. Jones9. Translating Paṭicca-samuppāda in Early BuddhismDhivan Thomas Jones10. Why Is Literal Meaning Insufficient? A Study of Desanāsīsa Explanations in the Pāli CommentariesAruna GamageContributorsIndex

Alice Collett is the author of Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns: Biographies as History and editor of Women in Early Indian Buddhism: Comparative Textual Studies.

"This volume is an inspiring read for scholars/translators who wish to interpret Buddhism in a different light." — Religious Studies Review"Translating Buddhism offers excellent research and insights into many of the issues and questions that translators of early Buddhist texts confront in their commitment to reflect core meanings. These analyses offer important contributions to Buddhist studies, and to the larger on-going conversation about how to facilitate understanding across languages, time periods, and traditions. Translators interested in historical and religious texts in particular will find many points of connection with the writers of Translating Buddhism." —Translation Studies"…Collett has brought together an illuminating collection that advances the subfield of translation studies within Buddhist studies … Translating Buddhism: Historical and Contextual Perspectives offers both an immensely generative reflection on working with primary source material in classical languages and the complex hermeneutical choices that arise in translation." — Reading Religion

• AbbreviationsIntroductionPart I: Texts1. Translation in Search of a Text: The Craving for StabilityCollett Cox2. Translating the Buddha's BodyNatalie Gummer3. On Reading Vinaya: Feminist History, Hermeneutics, and Translating the Female BodyAmy Paris LangenbergPart II: Translators4. Translating the Theravāda Commentaries: Why, How, for Whom?Oskar von Hinüber5. The Impact of Nineteenth-Century Missionary Translations of Theravada Buddhist TextsElizabeth Harris6. Words or Terms? Models of Terminology and the Translation of Buddhist Sanskrit VocabularyLigeia LugliPart III: Words7. Translation and Historical Context: Interpretations of AntevāsinīAlice Collett8. Translating the Tīrthika: Enduring "Heresy" in Buddhist StudiesC. V. Jones9. Translating Paṭicca-samuppāda in Early BuddhismDhivan Thomas Jones10. Why Is Literal Meaning Insufficient? A Study of Desanāsīsa Explanations in the Pāli CommentariesAruna GamageContributorsIndex