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05 January 2024
We Will Never Know What Language the Buddha Spoke
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“What can be said at all can be said clearly, and whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.” Ludwig Wittgenstein. Tractatus Logi...
27 April 2018
Through the Looking Glass: How we define and translate Buddhist technical terms
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In Feb 2018 I was invited to contribute an article to a special issue of the journal Contemporary Buddhism . The issue would mainly con...
29 August 2014
Placing the Heart in Indo-European
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In Sanskrit the main word for 'heart' is hṛd or the suffixed form hṛdaya . However most of us are also familiar with the word fo...
24 September 2010
The Linguistic Joys of Popular Religion
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As I have a prominent website dealing with Buddhist mantra , I frequently receive requests for help and advice with phrases in Sanskrit, of...
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