AN INVESTIGATION INTO BUDDHISM MEDITATION WORKS AND THEIR VIETNAMESE TRANSLATED VERSIONS

AN INVESTIGATION INTO BUDDHISM MEDITATION WORKS AND THEIR VIETNAMESE TRANSLATED VERSIONS
Author: Nguyen Ho Ngoc Anh Tuan
Publisher: Nguyen Ho Ngoc Anh Tuan
Total Pages: 3
Release:
Genre: Bibles
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This thesis investigated the most common types of Strategies for Translating Religion-specific terminologies used in the translation of Vietnamese words. This aims at assisting learners of English in classifying meanings of English meditation terminologies as well as their equivalents in Vietnamese in order to use them appropriately in especially translation. We are interested in dealing with the loss of meaning in the translation of Buddhism meditation works from English to Vietnamese versions in Buddhist documents. We normally have difficulties in understanding Buddhist terminologies in English. So doing research on the strategies and procedures that may apply to the translation of Vietnamese, cultural words must be useful for our students and us to improve their skills of reading English Buddhism documents. The researcher used a contrastive analysis to complete this study. The researcher took this method from the statement by (Goetz, J. P., and LeCompte, M. D., 1985, p. 87). The data extracted from the book “Three pillars of Zen” and the Vietnamese versions entitled “Ba trụ thiền”. There are 300 utterances in each version of the Buddhism meditation work, English and Vietnamese version to find out the phenomena of loss and gain take place regularly in the translational version the book” Three pillars of Zen” in the present thesis. We can see that it is very difficult to translate religious texts. Finding out the loss of meaning in the translation of Buddhism meditation works from English to Vietnamese versions has been concerned as well. This is for helping readers of English apply in language skills as well as translation of English religious contexts into Vietnamese and vice versa

Buddhism & Zen in Vietnam

Buddhism & Zen in Vietnam
Author: Thich Thien-an
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages: 259
Release: 1992-09-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 146291151X

Buddhism & Zen in Vietnam provides, for Western readers, a much needed introduction to this important religion—its history, practices, concepts, and role in the lives of the people, the nation, and Vietnamese culture. Recently, Vietnam has aroused the attention of the Western world and made the task of understanding Vietnamese Buddhism more imperative. This Buddhist book gives a comprehensive account of Buddhism in Vietnam and the various Zen Buddhist schools in Vietnam and their relation to Buddhism in other Asian countries. Students of Vietnamese culture and Zen Buddhism will find this penetrating and enlightening study of incalculable value.

Trúc Lâm Buddhism in Vietnam

Trúc Lâm Buddhism in Vietnam
Author: Laura Thuy-Loan Nguyen
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2021-01-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1527564460

In the thirteenth century, King-Monk Trần Nhân Tông founded the Trúc Lâm Thiền (Chan/Zen) sect. During the Golden Age in Vietnamese Buddhist history, the sect flourished under three patriarchs with renowned Thiền masters. Unfortunately, the Trúc Lâm sect faded over the following centuries, and Thiền Buddhism in Vietnam, for the most part, disappeared. In the late twentieth century, a growing new religious movement led by Thích Thanh Từ, a Pure Land monk, called for a restoration of Trúc Lâm Thiền Buddhism. Who is Thích Thanh Từ? How and why did he choose to revive this particular sect and its emancipation practices? Trúc Lâm currently boasts hundreds of monasteries and thousands of monks and nuns in Vietnam and beyond, but how have the forces of modernity influenced its original traditions? Through existing literature and extensive onsite fieldwork, this book analyzes the history and revival of a forgotten Buddhist sect and examines the movement’s reform.

Holy Troublemakers and Unconventional Saints

Holy Troublemakers and Unconventional Saints
Author: Daneen Akers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2019-11-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781734089509

An illustrated children's storybook featuring people of faith who rocked the religious boat on behalf of love and justice.

Zen in Medieval Vietnam

Zen in Medieval Vietnam
Author: Cuong Tu Nguyen
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 502
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780824819484

A study and translation of a 14th-century text on the transmission of the Zen lineages in Vietnam. The author argues that there has never been a Zen tradition in Vietnam, but that Zen manifests itself in a philosophical attitude and artistic sentiments throughout religious and cultural life.

Reading South Vietnam's Writers

Reading South Vietnam's Writers
Author: Thomas Engelbert
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2023-07-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9819910439

This edited book examines how South Vietnam’s (formerly the Republic of Vietnam 1955-1975) literary and journalistic writers were perceived and - potentially - influenced by Western thought, led by thinkers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Franz Kafka, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann, Martin Heidegger, Hermann Hesse, Edmund Husserl, Stefan Zweig, Graham Greene, and Somerset Maugham. The book reveals the dynamism and diversity of Western thought in individual literary texts, as well as among the authors themselves. The volume considers how writers and their texts engaged with issues that are socially, culturally, politically, and philosophically significant to Vietnam and beyond, past and present. This approach to South Vietnam’s literary and journalistic tradition enables an alternative plural, inclusive view of the significance of these texts, which are shown to be neither exclusively anti-Communist nor “bourgeois individualist” (cá nhân tiểu tư sản), as they have so often been interpreted both in and outside of Vietnam. Such an interpretation problematically retains the marginal position of South Vietnam’s literature in mainstream Vietnamese literature, and in the literatures of the host countries where these Vietnamese authors have migrated, settled, and continued to write following the 'Fall of Saigon'. This volume presents itself as a key text for those studying Asian and postcolonial literatures, as well as scholars in the humanities researching Vietnam – its history, politics, society, and culture.

A Monk's Guide to Happiness

A Monk's Guide to Happiness
Author: Gelong Thubten
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2020-08-11
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1250266831

“Thubten is able to explain meditation using clear language and an approach which really speaks to our modern tech-infused lives.” —Rami Jawhar, Program Manager at Google Arts & Culture In our never-ending search for happiness we often find ourselves looking to external things for fulfillment, thinking that happiness can be unlocked by buying a bigger house, getting the next promotion, or building a perfect family. In this profound and inspiring book, Gelong Thubten shares a practical and sustainable approach to happiness. Thubten, a Buddhist monk and meditation expert who has worked with everyone from school kids to Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and Benedict Cumberbatch, explains how meditation and mindfulness can create a direct path to happiness. A Monk’s Guide to Happiness explores the nature of happiness and helps bust the myth that our lives and minds are too busy for meditation. The book can show you how to: Learn practical methods to help you choose happiness Develop greater compassion for yourself and others Learn to meditate in micro-moments during a busy day Discover that you are naturally ‘hard-wired’ for happiness Reading A Monk’s Guide to Happiness could revolutionize your relationship with your thoughts and emotions, and help you create a life of true happiness and contentment. “His writing is full of inspiration but also the pragmatism needed to form a sustainable practice. His book clearly illustrates why we all need meditation and mindfulness in our lives.” —Benedict Cumberbatch “[A] powerful debut . . . a highly accessible and jargon-free introduction to meditation.” —Publishers Weekly

Buddhism and Medicine

Buddhism and Medicine
Author: C. Pierce Salguero
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 541
Release: 2017-09-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 023154426X

From its earliest days, Buddhism has been closely intertwined with medicine. Buddhism and Medicine is a singular collection showcasing the generative relationship and mutual influence between these fields across premodern Asia. The anthology combines dozens of English-language translations of premodern Buddhist texts with contextualizing introductions by leading international scholars in Buddhist studies, the history of medicine, and a range of other fields. These sources explore in detail medical topics ranging from the development of fetal anatomy in the womb to nursing, hospice, dietary regimen, magical powers, visualization, and other healing knowledge. Works translated here include meditation guides, popular narratives, ritual manuals, spells texts, monastic disciplinary codes, recipe inscriptions, philosophical treatises, poetry, works by physicians, and other genres. All together, these selections and their introductions provide a comprehensive overview of Buddhist healing throughout Asia. They also demonstrate the central place of healing in Buddhist practice and in the daily life of the premodern world. This anthology is a companion volume to Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Sources (Columbia, 2019).