The Dharma's gatekeepers
Subtitle: Sakya Pandita on Buddhist scholarship in Tibet
By: Jonathan C. Gold.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Albany, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780791471654
Subjects: Sa-skya Paṇḍi-ta Kun-dgaʾ-rgyal-mtshan, -- 1182-1251; Buddhism -- Study and teaching -- China -- Tibet
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The lion's roar in the assembly: Sakya Paṇḍiata's scholary ideal; title: Beware of the dharma in translation: a warning to interpreters; title: The dharma is only words: a philosophical authorization of the linguist; title: The expert is the context: Sakya Paṇḍita's appeals to Buddhist hermeneutics; title: The message in the medium: intellectual norms and protocols; title: Appealing to the translocal: Sanskrit poetics for a Tibetan Buddhist elite; title: Thoughts on a future comparative intellectual history.