Keith Sanborn via Nettime-tmp on Sun, 30 Jul 2023 17:03:56 +0200 (CEST)


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Re: <nettime> destroyer of worlds

Is it possible to mistake the meaning of the  Sanskrit word in the original? To state the obvious: O’s version wd seem to be an unconscious transformation of the meaning based on what he was observing. 

On Jul 30, 2023, at 10:06 AM, Jon Lebkowsky via Nettime-tmp <nettime-tmp@mail.ljudmila.org> wrote:


I can see where "time" and "death" could both work, if you look from a Buddhist perspective of emptiness/impermanence.

On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 6:26 AM David Garcia via Nettime-tmp <nettime-tmp@mail.ljudmila.org> wrote:
Amidst all the current Oppenheimer hype, I appreciated Zia Haider
Rahman, the author of *In the Light of What We Know* - ' who in a recent
tweet declared:

"I hate Oppenheimer a teeny tiny little bit for his knowingly bastard
translation of the B Gita (he was a Sanskritist). An accurate
translation would be "I am become Time, destroyer of worlds" so much
better, quite profound really"

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