Poems of the First Buddhist Women, Charles Hallisey's translation of the Therigatha for Harvard University Press's Murty Classical Library of India, 2015, is a scholarly translation. Its strength is that it renders one of the earliest surviving collections of women's own religious verse into accessible English with a scholar's own critical apparatus behind it. Its limit is the ordinary one for any translation of ancient verse: word choices reflect one translator's own judgment, and readers working on fine points of meaning should check the Pali original or a second translation alongside it.
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AuthorTranslated by Charles Hallisey
PublisherHarvard University Press (Murty Classical Library of India)
Publication Year2015
URLhttps://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674251359
Source TypeTranslation
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Source-type Translation, never tiered before; matched to the academic-press-monograph shape, Harvard University Press (Murty Classical Library of India). NotesScholarly translation of the Therigatha, poems of the first Buddhist women, Harvard University Press, Murty Classical Library of India, 2015.
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