--- lenni_lop <lenni_lop@...> skrev:

> If you don't know anything about "Karl Eugen
> Neumann" - the German
> Buddhist who is sometimes called "Buddhist Luther"
> because of his
> beautiful and ground-breaking translations of the
> Tipitaka into German
> - you can read about his life here too:
>
> http://ken.nibbanam.com/

Very interesting - but whether he was "the first
translator of large parts of the Pali Canon of
buddhist scriptures from the original Pali into a
European language" is a matter of definitions.
Fausbölls translations of the Dhammapada into Latin,
and of the Suttanipaata into English, must be earlier,
and Max Müller's project "Sacred Books of the East"
was initiated in 1879, about a decade before Neumann's
first translations from Pali.

He probably was the first one to make translations
directly from Pali into German, though, and his
version of the Majjhima is more straightforward than
Mrs. Horners English one - "Entleerung von Kot und
Harn" instead of "obeying the calls of nature..."

Gunnar







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