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Translation - Japonese-Italian - nam miotto renghe kio

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Title
nam miotto renghe kio
Text
Submitted by booooh
Source language: Japonese

nam miotto renghe kio

Title
Mantra
Translation
Italian

Translated by Tousled Crow
Target language: Italian

Abbraccerò l'insegnamento di Hokekyo.
Remarks about the translation
NAM MIO HO RENGHE KIO e' il titolo in giapponese del sutra ch'e' l'ultimo che insegno' Siddartha
La giusta traduzione e' :dedico la mia vita alla legge mistica di causa ed effetto, ed e' Mantra, recitare questo Mantra si dice fare Daimoku che in giapponese significa Invocazione.
In realtà il titolo del Sutra del Loto è soltanto Myo-ho-renge-kyo, che significa: "La Legge del Sutra del Loto". Quel "Nam" davanti, che dovrebbe essere più precisamente un "Namu", esprime devozione, dunque Nam-myoho-renge-kyo significa "Sono devoto alla Legge del Sutra del Loto" o anche "Onoro la Legge del Sutra del Loto".
E anche “Omaggio al Sutra del Loto” in giapponese.
Validated by ali84 - 15 September 2008 14:09





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1 July 2008 23:47

ali84
Number of messages: 427
Well Tousled Crow, you did a good job with copy&paste from yahoo answers :P
Anyway, japanese experts could you please check if the source text is spelled correctly and if the translation Tousled Crow found is right?
[english bridge: I devote my life to the mystic law of cause and effect]

ありがとう

CC: IanMegill2 ミハイル

2 July 2008 07:58

IanMegill2
Number of messages: 1671
Well, Tousled Crow's rewriting of it is perfect: the original text is indeed a very strange way of spelling
Nam(u) Myô Hô Renge Kyô
南無妙法蓮華経
This is a mantra used by the Nichiren sect of Buddhism here in Japan (I have a friend, a Nichiren monk, living very close to me). They chant this mantra over and over, often accompanying themselves on (small or big) drums.
It literally means:
Hail to (/Homage to/Honour to) the Sutra (called) "The Lotus of the Wonderful Teaching (of Buddha)."
In Sanskrit, this mantra is:
Namo Saddharma-pundarika-sutra
Which means:
Hail to the Sutra of the Lotus of the True Teaching.
(The Nichiren Sect has their own name for this sutra, because it's so important to them.)

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I must say, however, that I think Tousled Crow's "translation" is instead a very loose interpretation of this mantra.
This is perhaps one interpretation of the meaning of the mantra (and perhaps not the most important meaning?), but I don't think we can call this a true translation, when there are ways to say this in English much closer to the original meaning in Sanskrit-Japanese...
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I think we should instead put the simple translation in the Translation field, and then perhaps put her notes about the meaning of the source text below, in the Remarks field.

2 July 2008 14:12

ミハイル
Number of messages: 275
What Professor.Ian said is right.
This is mantra of Buddhism.

Which means
I will embrace the teaching of Hokekyo.

Sorry,i can't understand Italiano.
I think my advise will not help you...but i hope it will be able to help you.

2 July 2008 19:38

ali84
Number of messages: 427
Thanks to both of you for the help
Ian, your explanation is just amazing
I'll modify the translation according to the suggestions