Sara Boin-Webb
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Sara Boin-Webb (28 April 1937 – 7 July 2008).[1] A scholar and translator who specialized in translating Buddhist texts from French into English.[1] In particular, she translated multiple works of the French scholar Étienne Lamotte (1903 – 1983) into English.
- Sara Boin-Webb was the official translator of Étienne Lamotte's work. Her success was attested by the publication of her English-language renderings of Lamotte's Vimalakīrtinirdeśa (The Teaching of Vimalakīrti, London 1976) and Histoire du bouddhisme indien (History of Indian Buddhism, Louvain 1988), as well as several other works from the French. She was Assistant Editor of the Buddhist Studies Review.[2][3][4]
Boin-Webb also translated the works of other scholars, including an English language translation of the Abhidharmasamuccaya: The Compendium of the Higher Teaching (2001), based on the French translation by Walpola Rahula.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Obituary for Sara Boin-Webb, 1937–2008
- ↑ Śūraṃgamasamādhisūtra: The Concentration of Heroic Progress
- ↑
Sara Boin-Webb, Tsadra Commons
- ↑
Sara Boin-Webb, Bodhicitta: A Tsadra Foundation Project
