Book Review Bodhisattvas of the Forest and the Formation of the Mahāyāna by Daniel Boucher [Book Review]

Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 119 (8):502-4 (2014)
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Abstract

A unique aspect of this book is that it ventures into an analysis of the extant translations of the Rashtrapalapariprichchha Sutra. Delineating the shortcomings of these translations, Boucher gives a new translation based on Sanskrit and Chinese texts of the sutra. We are reminded that translations differ not only because of the target language but also because of the milieu from which the translation is done. The new annotated translation of the Rashtrapalapariprichchha Sutra is lucid and an easy read. Boucher deserves praise for retaining the original ethos in the English idiom.

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