Talk:Buddhacharita

Dharmarakṣa or Dharmakṣema ?
I've noted an incoherence. It is said that a chinese translation was written by Dharmarakṣa in 420 AD, but Dharmarakṣa lived in the 3rd-4th century (239-316 AD). If the date 420 AD is correct, the translator should be Dharmakṣema (385-435/6 AD). The similarity of their names may lead to confusion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eudox (talk • contribs) 11:16, 3 December 2009 (UTC)


 * yes its Dharmakṣema. I have corrected this and added a reference. JimRenge (talk) 15:51, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Copyright problem ?
The following text seems top be a word for word copy from this website: http://www.mahavirmandirpatna.org/Restoration%20of%20the%20Buddhacharita.html

In the 9th decade of the 20th century Mahant Ramchandra Das Shastri from Jabalpur (M.P.) had tried to complete the epic by translating into Sanskrit on the basis of Hindi translation by Suryanarayan Chaudhari. He completed the work using only ‘Anustup’ meter. It was published from ‘Chaukhamba Vidyabhavan’Varanasi. Although he has completed it, yet the translation does not represent the original because of the use of a short meter. Mahant Ram Chandra Das did not consider the use of meter in original. So the translation became brief and many poetic effects remained unexpressed. Pandit Bhavanath Jha, the Publication and Research Officer, Mahavir Mandir, Patna, Bihar (India) has restored the doomed portion of the Buddhacarita (canto 15 to 28). The present poetic – translation/restoration is the verbatim to the Tibetan-English text given by Johnston and supposed to be much close to the original Sanskrit text. The present translator has also completed the broken portion in the English translation done by Johnston borrowing the concerned expressions from the Chinese text to maintain fluency of the poetry in the way of Indian tradition of the poetics. Therefore it can be mentioned as the restoration of the doomed text of the Buddhacharitam. It will give the original taste, rhythm and musical effect to readers and devotees of Lord Buddha as it has been produced in the original rhythm and language.

I propose to delete this. The details of the retranslation of the english text (from the Tibetan version) into sanskrit poetry do not seem to be essential information for the english speaking reader. JimRenge (talk) 15:51, 17 November 2013 (UTC) Alternative: reword and reuse. JimRenge (talk) 11:21, 6 February 2014 (UTC)