| title | authors | external_url | source_url | drive_links | course | tags | year | month | journal | volume | pages | publisher | openalexid | |||
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Translation as Innovation in Literature: The Case of a Sanskrit Buddhist Poem Translated Into Chinese |
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medieval |
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2015 |
jun |
Open Linguistics |
1 |
376--385 |
De Gruyter Open |
W2270447737 |
This paper attempts to describe the many difficulties faced by the first Buddhist translators through the analysis of the translation of a particular poem, the Buddhacarita. The case study aims at pointing out how this translation process involved linguistic, religious and cultural issues.