TranslatingOn Mistranslation, hunters and musk.It might be that mistranslation is one of the conditions that frustrates potential scholars/practitioners. In fact, it is usually people with keen intellect who come away with a distaste for the topic if it was presented in an unscrupulous and wayward manner.
TranslatingPretentious calm and commodification.Some western Buddhist teachers and practitioners believe that emotions should be entirely suppressed, thus they often speak in a characteristic flat, lifeless manner, sometimes accompanied by a lot of smiling - a result of decades of marketing dharma as a tool for happiness.