5.9 Golden plates, translation, and Tibetan Buddhism

We welcome Tanner McAlister today as we discuss two articles on the translation of the Book of Mormon.  We kick things off using our season’s reference, “Yet to be revealed”, from BYU studies.  Grant Hardy’s article “The Book of Mormon Translation Process”, provides an excellent discussion of possible problems and resolutions in the translation of the Book of Mormon.  Then Tanner, a scholar of Tibetan Buddhism, walks us through his recent work, “The Production of the Book of Mormon in Light of a Tibetan Buddhist Parallel”, published in Dialogue, which draws parallels between the discovery and “translation” of both a class of ancient Tibetan Buddhist scripture and the Book of Mormon.  Join us!

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The Book of Mormon Translation Process, by Grant Hardy

https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/the-book-of-mormon-translation-process/

The Production of the Book of Mormon in Light of a Tibetan Buddhist Parallel, by Tanner Davidson McAlister

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/the-production-of-the-book-of-mormon-in-light-of-a-tibetan-buddhist-parallel/

The full issue: Yet to be revealed, open questions in Latter-Day Saint theology. Edited by Eric A. Eliason and Terryl L. Givens

https://byustudies.byu.edu/journal/60-3/

Understanding the Book of Mormon: A Reader's Guide, by Grant Hardy

https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Book-Mormon-Readers-Guide/dp/0199731705

Kathleen Flake, “Translating Time: The Nature and Function of Joseph Smith’s Narrative Canon,” Journal of Religion 87, no. 4 (2007): 497–527

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/519770

Jared Hickman, “‘Bringing Forth’ the Book of Mormon,” in MacKay, Ashurst-McGee, and Hauglid, Producing Ancient Scripture, 78–80.

Blake T. Ostler, “The Book of Mormon as a Modern Expansion of an Ancient Source,” Dialogue 20, no. 1 (1987): 66–123

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V20N01_68.pdf

James Gentry, “Power Objects” (Leiden: Brill, 2017)

https://brill.com/downloadpdf/book/9789004335042/B9789004335042_001.pdf

Rosalynde Welch, “The New Mormon Theology of Matter,” Mormon Studies Review 4, no. 1 (2017): 70.

https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1077&context=msr2

Longchenpa and the Possession of the Dakinis, from Tantra in Practice, by David Germano and Janet Gyatso

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9780691190457-020/html?lang=en