AN AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF THE TRANSLATION OF THE WORD "REN" IN THE FOUR BOOKS OF THE CONFUCIUS SCHOOL INTO THAI

Abstract

"Ren" (仁) is a significant virtue of Confucian philosophy. It is challenging to translate because the meaning is so broad and deep. The goal of this article is to examine the method used to translate the term Ren from Chinese into Thai in the Confucius School's Four Books. The study and analysis of data from the Thai and Chinese editions of the Four Books served as the basis forthe research. The findings indicated that two cultural translation strategies 1) transliteration and 2) transcription were applied in the translation of the word Ren into Thai. The tactic can be divided into six categories in Thai: Humanitarian, (Manussayadharma), Humaneness (Manussadhamma), Fundamental human rules (Kalayanadhamma), Compassion (Mettadhamma), Benevolence (Karunyadhamma), and love or good intentions. According to Sanchawi Saibua's translation theory, the term Ren is translated from these six words using a free translation technique. According to the investigation, it was also discovered that the word Ren is translated differently into Thai using different words in the four volumes of the Confucius School's Four Books in the scope of this research, which are translated into Thai. 1) In Lun Yu (The Analects), the term "humanitarian" is used. 2) In Da Xue (the Great Learning), the term "fundamental human rules'' is used 3) In Zhong Yong
(the Doctrine of the Mean), the term "humaneness" is used. 4) In Mengzi (the Works of Mencius), The words "humaneness" and "benevolence" are used.