9 avril 2020
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
T. H. Barrett, « The Chinese Perception of Jainism 耆那教 », Collège de France, ID : 10.4000/books.cdf.7502
The following remarks are concerned with an aspect of cultural contact that seems to have received comparatively little attention so far, despite the pioneering work of specialists in reception studies such as Elinor Shaffer, namely the diffusion and influence of large bodies of translated material. The transfer of a corpus of writing from one language to another and from one culture to another is in itself a topic of indubitable interest, but what happens or indeed fails to happen next is su...