The Art of Translating Asian Buddhist Languages

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I’ve been asked to speak about the art of translating Eastern languages and cultures into our modern languages. This is a very, very broad topic because when we talk about Eastern cultures, of course, there are many Eastern cultures, and there are also many, many modern languages, not only Western languages but also modern Asian languages. Each specific task of going from one base language to the target language is going to have different aspects and different problems that need to be addressed, so it’s very important to understand not only the source language and the target language but also the source culture and the target culture in order to be sensitive to them. 

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