The Dharma's Gatekeepers: Sakya Pandita on Buddhist Scholarship in Tibet by Jonathan C. Gold

Author:Jonathan C. Gold
Language: eng
Format: azw3, pdf
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2007-09-06T00:00:00+00:00

Above all, Sa-pan's goal in this section of the Gateway is to present traditional poetic concepts in a mode that will satisfy the likely tastes of his Tibetan Buddhist readership, and at the same time, to show them that literary expertise can be used to display the very height of refinement. If Sa-pan could have simply made this argument without translating and summarizing extensively from the Kavyadarsa, perhaps he would have. But at the point of the exposition where on other topics the Gateway instructs its readers to seek further explanations elsewhere, Sa-pan instead feels obliged to lay out a great amount of detail. For no other Tibetan texts yet existed for Sa-pan's readers to pursue for further study of alankarasastra. Sa-pan chose to save space by referring to other texts wherever he could, but judged that since no existing Tibetan texts provided the required exposition of poetics, his own detailed, original exposition was necessary.

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