Bible of Tibet Flashcards
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bible to tibet
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- collection of Indian tales translated into Tibetan in 9th century
- then translated into German by Russian scholar, Franz Anton Schiefner between 1860-1879. these translations never circulated well
- translated into English by early British scholar of Russian literature W.R.S Ralston
2
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when did the English translation appear and under what title?
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it appeared in 1882 under the title “Tibetan Tales From Indian Sources”
3
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Caroline Rhys Davids
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- only talks about bible to tibet as “an edited closed canon of “scriptures””
- scholar and translator of Pali Buddhist scriptures
- almost one-half of the Tales have no claimed Indian origin
- one or two may have come from India but were rejected by Buddhist canonical editors as too immoral
4
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what is an example of one of the stories that were rejected by Buddhist canonical editors?
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the clever thief
5
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what did Caroline Rhys davids think about the clever thief? was she right or wrong in her thoughts?
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- she thought that the clever thief must not be buddhist
- wrong: it was buddhist, canonical, and part of the buddhist law code of Mula-sarvastivadins
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Thomas William Rhys Davids
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- husband of Caroline Rhys Davids
- founded the Pali Text Society in 1881. most of our scholarly translations and editions of Pali texts of South Asian Buddhism come from there
7
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Steyasastra/Corasastra
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learned treaties in India that are devoted to the art of stealing
