Events The Tenth Buddhist Text Translation Seminar: Zhiyi's Fahuawenju 法華文句

The Buddhist Text Translation Seminar is designed to provide researchers who are working on long-term translation projects to discuss their ongoing work in a casual, online format with fellow researchers. The seminar will meet on the morning of the last Friday of the month, six months per year. Participants may join by invitation only.

 

For the May 2026 seminar, Paul Swanson will discuss portions of his translation of the Fahuawenju 法華文句. Zhiyi goes back and forth between expounding at length on a certain phrase or, which reads a lot like the Fahuaxuanyi 法華玄義, and a more strict textual commentary where he takes up passages phrase by phrase. The presenter will provide tentative translation of sections of the text to provide context for discussing these different commentarial techniques.