Oriental Studies (Apr 2018)
The Poetic Foreword to Je Tsongkhapa’s ̒Middle Length Lam-Rim’: the Tibetan Original and its Oirat Translation
Abstract
The article deals with Oirat Buddhist terms used by Zaya Pandita Namkhaijamts in his translation of the poetic foreword to the Middle Length Lam-Rim composed by the founder of the Gelug Tibetan Buddhist tradition - Je Tsongkhapa. The analysis of the Tibetan and Oirat texts of the poetic foreword to the Middle Length Lam-Rim accompanied by a modern Mongolian translated text of the composition revealed some clarifying words introduced by Zaya Pandita to precise the meanings of the verses, inexact translations of Buddhist terms, peculiarities of Mongolian translation of personal names of Buddhas and Buddhist Teachers as well as some general concepts of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy.
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