Society & Economicsarticle2026-10-15

The Feathers of the Arrow — Why Hardly Anyone Understands What the Buddha Meant

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Abstract

On scholars' language, forest monks and translating for meaning: how the vocabulary of the Pali Text Society hardened into binding wording, what was lost with it, and four verifiable rules for translating the meaning rather than the grammar of Pali. English edition; the German original is published alongside.

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View paper (DOI)Open access versionOpenAlexZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)Published 2026-10-15

Authors: D. Schwörer