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The Philosophy of Translation: A Short Bibliography

Quine, W. V., 1970, 'On the Reasons for Indeterminacy of Translation',

The Journal of Philosophy, 67, pp. 178-183.

Yudkin, M., 1979, 'On Quine's Contretemps of Translation', Mind, 88,

pp. 93-96.

Davidson, D., 1984, Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation, (Oxford,

Clarendon, pp.190-198.

On the cultural translation of religions:

Pye, E. M., 1969, 'The Transplantation of Religions', Numen, 16 (4),

pp. 234-239.

Pye, E. M., 1980, 'Comparative Hermeneutics: A Brief Statement',

Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 7 (1), pp. 25-33.

Mellor, P. A., 1989, The Cultural Translation of Buddhism: problems of

theory and method in the study of Buddhism in England, (University of

Manchester, England. Unpublished PhD. Thesis).

George Steiner's _After Babel_.

Jon Gold's dissertation, _The Dharma's Gatekeepers_, forthcoming any

day now from SUNY, discusses at length the disputes about translation

in Tibet raised by Sa skya Pandita, and in doing so relates this in

much detail with contemporary philosophical discussiions of translation

thoery.

Asad, Alal Geneologies of Religion (1993 Johns Hopkins


University Press)

Lama Doboom Tulku, ed.Buddhist Translations : problems and perspectives

New Delhi: Manohar, 2001

Opera Minora,Book 1
Translating, translations, translators : from India to the West. Harvard Oriental Series 1996.

A collection of papers dealing with translating from Hindi, Sanskrit, Tibetan, etc.