Visual Buddhism with MC Owens: Vox Buddha

The words of the Buddha have been preserved in many languages. Languages have even been created in order to preserve the teachings. Since we do not have records in the original Magadhi language the Buddha is assumed to have spoken, we must always rely on translations, primarily in Pali and Sanskrit, yet Chinese, Japanese, and Tibetan are also often essential for gaining access to even some of the earliest sayings. This presentation traces the history of the process of translating Buddhist texts, with brief excursions into semiotics, hermeneutics,and calligraphy.
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MC Owens is a Buddhist teacher, translator, and author who uses a sutra-based curriculum that draws from a variety of traditions to teach the history, philosophy, and practice of Buddhism. He teaches regularly for the San Francisco Dharma Collective and he also runs Lotus Underground - a repository of his teaching activities, audio recordings, and writings.
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[@omegalaw8042]

Black myth brought me here

[@SonicPhonic]

Thank you! Very thorough! I can sympathize with the concern for translation being a "classical" musician; we use Italain quite a bit and a bit of French and German for music after about 1850. Classical singers, mostly for Opera, may have to sing and know diction for 5 or more languages, so they use the singer's International Phonetic Alphabet. Even European languages have been incorrectly "transliterated": the French "Cors Anglais" (English Horn) should be translated as "Angel's Horn" or "Angled Horn". Sometimes someone got it wrong and it stuck causing confusion ever since.

[@MomentsGap]

Well I don't know if you answer questions anymore It's rare j really shift my perspective from a lecture So good My question is Why has pali never evolved it's own script, if it was so important?

[@michaelowens8509]

Great question! It may be that Pali was exclusively an oral language for a long time before eventually being written in various local scripts.