03642cam a2200337 i 4500001001300000003000600013007000300019008004100022010001700063020001800080020001500098035002200113050002100135245013900156246005400295260004100349300003000390500003600420504004100456505096600497520149801463650004102961650002903002650005403031651004503085700002103130700002203151942001203173952010603185999001303291on1004427563OCoLCta210127s2017    th ab    b    000 0 eng d  a  2017355592  a9786162151354  a6162151352  a(OCoLC)1004427563  aBQ266b.I43 201700aImagination and narrative :blexical and cultural translation in Buddhist Asia /cedited by Peter Skilling and Justin Thomas McDaniel.10aLexical and cultural translation in Buddhist Asia  aChiang Mai :bSilkworm Books,c2017.  avi, 290 p. :bill., maps.  aIn English, with some Japanese.  aIncludes bibliographical references.0 aIntroduction. Found in translation : creating communities through Buddhist art and narrative / Justin Thomas McDaniel -- Buddhist vocabulary and doctrines in medieval Shinto texts: the fourteenth chapter of Reikiki / Iyanaga Nobumi -- The notion of force Majeure (Bhaya) in Siamese and Khmer legal codes / Oliver de Bernom -- Xuanzang and the schools of Dhyana (Zen) in Japan / Fredderic Girard -- Mapping Burma and northern Thailand in 1795 : Francis Hamilton's critical accounts of native maps / Jacques P. Leider -- Romance and riddle : Buddhist narratives of Siam / Peter Skilling -- Representing the opposition: Brahmanas and others in the Jatakas / Kumkum Roy -- Narratives of the four assemblies in the Wat Phra Chetuphon inscriptions / Warangkana Srikamnerd -- Early Buddhism in Laos: insights from archaeology / Michel Lorrillard -- Facts in figures about Buddhist historiography on Lanna, its material culture, and its production / Francois Lagirarde.  aThe essays in this volume highlight the movement of Buddhist ideas and practices across Asia and how the encounter of far-flung cultures and personalities encouraged adaptation and transformation. At times this meant textual translation and transmission, as seen in the chapters about Chinese and Japanese Buddhist texts and their authors, or the analysis of Buddhist manuscripts in northern Thailand. Other cases entailed cultural translation-local adaptations of jataka tales, the evolution of legal notions within the framework of Theravada Buddhist teachings, localizations embedded in material culture seen through inscriptions and archaeological traces. Some themes go beyond Buddhism writ small to explore the broad canvas of engagement: the East-West encounter in the British geographical and anthropological exploration of Burma, and the place of Brahmanism in early Buddhist thought as expressed through the jatakas. This expertly curated selection of scholarship shows that the diffusion of ideas and religious thought is much more than a tale of decline and loss or cultural appropriation and impoverishment. The fresh perspectives presented here-all drawn on primary sources-give an overall impression of a singular diversity that somehow participates in an unacknowledged unity. Beyond the fragmentations of sectarian and cultural divides, disparate Buddhist and non-Buddhist traditions have gone beyond arbitrary boundaries and flourished through their simultaneity Book jacket. 4aBuddhism and culturezAsiaxHistory. 4aBuddhismzAsiaxHistory. 4aBuddhist literaturezAsiaxHistory and criticism. 4aAsiaxCivilizationxBuddhist influences.1 aSkilling, Peter.1 aMcDaniel, Justin.  2lcccBK  00104070aPNLIBbPNLIBcGENd2021-06-17oBQ266 .I43 2017pPNLIB21060537r2021-06-17w2021-06-17yBK  c723d723