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In a famous article, Jan Nattier<\/a> demonstrates that the Chinese translator Zhi Qian<\/a> (222-252 AD) did not only translate<\/em> from Sanskrit to Chinese, he adapted<\/em>. That is to say, certain concepts of Indian culture, notably the ascetic retreat in the jungle (in the midst of carnivorous beasts), did not pass muster with the literate public of the Chinese mandarins: practicing a spiritual path, yes, but according to conditions that were their own, in physical and mental structures that were their own.<\/span><\/p>\n From then on, Zhi Qian adapted and transformed the word: the Sanskrit term ara\u1e47yav\u0101sa,<\/em> “dwelling in a wild place,” becomes in Chinese kongxianchu<\/em>, “place of empty leisure,” which designates the country hermitage of someone rich, and evokes a certain comfort of situation contrasting with the intense Indian eremitism.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0“Thus, Zhi Qian, literally, changes<\/em> the text.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Sacrilege? Compassion. Betrayal of sacred texts? Fundamental kindness towards beings. For it is a question of bringing to their knowledge a whole series of key points and fundamental experiences in the structures that are theirs. Then, little by little or all at once, these experiences will have the power to explode these structures to reveal the brilliance of the nature of the spirit in its dazzling nakedness. 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Compassion. Betrayal of sacred texts? 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