it's wild to me that people will live their lives guided by their reading of a *translation* of a document without ever engaging with the original language or any of the details of the translation process
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rereading my favorite thing @RomeoStevens76 has ever written, "(mis)Translating the Buddha"
"This is a good example of how Buddhism has been transmitted to the west. It's worse than not helpful, it's actively anti-helpful. As in it obscures actual understanding."
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