{"id":110311,"date":"2014-11-04T12:06:41","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T17:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umweagleeye.wpengine.com\/?p=110311"},"modified":"2014-11-04T12:06:41","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T17:06:41","slug":"hirshberg-moderates-plenary-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2014\/11\/04\/hirshberg-moderates-plenary-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Hirshberg Moderates Plenary Session"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><div id=\"attachment_110671\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/11\/Dan-Hirshberg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110671\" class=\"wp-image-110671 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/11\/Dan-Hirshberg-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"Dan-Hirshberg\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/11\/Dan-Hirshberg-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/11\/Dan-Hirshberg.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-110671\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&ldquo;Authenticity and Myth-Making&rdquo; Panelists <br> From left to right: Dan Hirshberg, Wulstan Fletcher (Tsadra Foundation), Professor Karma Lekshe Tsomo (University of San Diego), Professor Don Lopez (University of Michigan), and Dr. Jules Levinson (UMA Institute).<\/p><\/div><p class=\"p1\">Dan Hirshberg, Assistant Professor of Religion, moderated the closing&nbsp;discussion of Tsadra Foundation&rsquo;s Transmission &amp; Translation conference. Since Tibetans began streaming out of&nbsp;Tibet&nbsp;following the Communist Invasions of&nbsp;the 1950&rsquo;s, this marks the first time that the world&rsquo;s foremost scholars and translators of Tibetan language materials, both from academia and Buddhist practice communities, both Tibetans and not, were convened to discuss an array of issues concerning the&nbsp;translation of Tibetan into Western languages. His panel on&nbsp;&ldquo;Authenticity and Myth-Making&rdquo;&nbsp;was especially provocative in confronting the problem of discrimination&nbsp;in Buddhist scripture, especially with regard to gender, and the question as to whether translators should&nbsp;allow&nbsp;such content to persist in translation, thereby sanctifying discrimination in authoritative sources for contemporary audiences who repudiate such views.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Hirshberg, Assistant Professor of Religion, moderated the closing&nbsp;discussion of Tsadra Foundation&rsquo;s Transmission &amp; Translation conference. Since Tibetans began streaming out of&nbsp;Tibet&nbsp;following the Communist Invasions of&nbsp;the 1950&rsquo;s, this marks the first time that the world&rsquo;s foremost scholars and translators of Tibetan language materials, both from academia and Buddhist practice communities, both Tibetans and not, were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26351,"featured_media":110671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[1591,9035,7831,770],"class_list":["post-110311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-professional-notes","tag-bio","tag-department-of-classics-philosophy-and-religion","tag-dhirshb","tag-religion","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26351"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}