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Handbook of Translation Studies: Volume 5
Edited by Yves Gambier and Luc van Doorslaer
[Handbook of Translation Studies 5] 2021
► pp. 191–198

Religious texts and oral tradition

| University of the Free State, Bloemfontein
Article outline
  • 1.Oral-written religious traditions
  • 2.Hindu oral tradition and religious texts
  • 3.Buddhist oral tradition and religious texts
  • 4.Taoist oral tradition and religious texts
  • 5.Conclusion
  • References
  • Texts/Translations
  • Further essential reading
Published online: 16 September 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/hts.5.rel5
References
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Texts/Translations

Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, A.C.
, trans 1986 Bhagavad-Gītā As It Is. Los Angeles: The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.Google Scholar
Gandhi, Mahatma
2002 Bhagavad-Gïtā. Stepney: Axiom.Google Scholar
Hoff, Benjamin
1982 The Tao of Pooh. London: Penguin.Google Scholar
Hume, R. Ernest
1934 The Thirteen Principal Upanishads. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
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1953 The Principal Upanishads. London: Allen & Unwin.Google Scholar
Zhengkun, Gu
1995 Lao Tzu: The Book of Tao and Teh. Beijing: Peking University Press.Google Scholar

Further essential reading

Johnson, Will J.
2005 “Making Sanskritic or Making Strange? How Should we Translate Classical Hindu Texts?” In Translation and religion. Holy Untranslatable? ed. by Lynne Long, 65–74. Cleveland: Multilingual matters.Google Scholar
Jousse, Marcel
2018 Memory, Memorization, and Memorizers. The Galilean Oral-Style Tradition and Its Traditionalists. Biblical Performance Criticism 15, Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books.Google Scholar
Makutoane, Tshokolo J., Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé, and Jacobus A. Naudé
2015, “Similarity and alterity in translating the orality of the Old Testament in oral cultures.” Translation Studies 8: 156–174. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Naudé, Jacobus A. and Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé
2018 “Sacred writings.” In Routledge Handbook of Literary Translation, ed. by Kelly Washbourne, and Ben Van Wyke, 181–205. London: Routledge. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Zhang, Wei
2016 Translating Dao. “Cross-Cultural Translation as a Hermeneutic of Edification.” In Translating Religion, ed. by Michael DeJonge, and Christiane Tietz, 13–28. London: Routledge.Google Scholar