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>Translating a book on Tibetan Buddhism
>Hard time on translating some passages
>Can't make out what the terms would be like translated
>Find out about another book who has translated a passage on the same subject
>The terms are accurately translated
>Experiencing_the_Clear_Light_of_Bliss.jpeg

>> No.18596354

>>18596025
Can you give me a quick breakdown on what the book is about?

>> No.18596547

Which book?

>> No.18596562

>look guise, I'm translating a book!!! Can you give me this medal?

>> No.18596570

>>18596562
not only did he utterly failed to translate it right, some other guy already did it

>> No.18596624

>>18596025
Why would you translate it if it's already been translated? Are you just practicing whatever language it's in?

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>>18596562
>>18596570

Say whatever you want, I'm still happy that I found something that helped me with my translation

>> No.18596640

>>18596632
but you didn't translate anything, you just read the other guy's translation

>> No.18597294

>>18596025
I hope you also know Sanskrit and Chinese

>> No.18597384

>>18596640
I borrowed some three translated terms to help me in my translation, and that means I'm not a translator! I'm so sorry... I should just become an hero now...
Also, if you have to be original in every single word you translate, it just means you're a bad translator, since it doesn't mean accuracy, but pure originality, which itself means nothing

>>18597294
I do know Sanskrit and Classical Tibetan, actually

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>>18597384
A lot of the major translators of Tibetan Buddhist texts into modern Western languages go to Tibet/India for years to learn both the language and material more thoroughly. Do you have any intention of pursuing that? Or are you just translating to test yourself?

>> No.18597408

>>18597384
you said the entire passage was translated, now it's only 3 terms?

>> No.18597421

>>18597403
I'd love to go, actually
I'm translating, because I was requested by the author, which is a Lama

>>18597408
>a passage on the same subject

>> No.18597444

>>18597421
Very cool. It's important to get as much of this stuff translated before most of it lost. IIRC there have been western scholar-translators who discovered manuscripts in libraries that had fallen out of study among the Tibetans today, or versions of texts that were thought to only exist in one of the languages (Sanskrit/Tibetan/Chinese) but not the others.

>> No.18597448

>>18597421
so that other guy still did the work, you didn't

>> No.18597676

>>18596570
>>18596562
>>18596640
>>18596632
why can't you just let the guy enjoy his work lol?
go be bitter in r9k or something