Bodhisattva der Apologetik: die Mission des buddhistischen Tang-Moenchs Falin - with an English Foreword by Bart Dessein

摘要

Who needs translations? The question seems ludicrous in an age of globalisation, but also justified if the target language is not English. Thomas Jiilch shows that the art of philological translation into languages other than English is far from dead. Calling this book ambitious would be an understatement. It is a revised and hugely enlarged edition of the author's doctoral dissertation, submitted to the University of Munich in 2011 under the title Die apologetischen Schriften des buddhistischen Tang-Moenchs Falin. While the first edition only comprised one volume (albeit 700 pages long), this one consists of three volumes, more than 5/6 of which is composed of translations.