16 May 2024
84000’s primary mission is to translate the Buddhist canon for diverse audiences–monastics and scholars as well as practitioners and general readers–while taking great care to make those translations accurate, available, and accessible. At the same time, 84000 strives to create a seamless and user-friendly reading experience that enhances the reader’s understanding.
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18 Nov 2020
In response to 2020’s unique challenges, our first fully, digital outreach initiative—Sūtras for Well-Being—supports our global community in feeling inspired, connected, and uplifted, offering a multimedia look at the sūtras traditionally recited for resilience and well-being in times of adversity, and the stories behind them.
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20 Apr 2020
Professor Jens Braarvig talks to us about his translation of ‘The Miraculous Play of Mañjuśri’ – a Mahāyāna sūtra that unfolds within a story about a courtesan and a wealthy, banker’s son – as well as the importance of language and philology in Buddhist studies.
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5 Aug 2018
Three new features in our Reading Room integrate our texts with better technologies that help readers get the most out of the sūtras.
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2 Dec 2017
Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche gives spontaneous commentary to “Teaching the Relative and Ultimate Truths.”
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21 Sep 2017
Huang Jing Rui, Executive Director of 84000, invites supporters to remember the immense hardship endured by translators of the past.
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21 Sep 2017
Meet 84000 translator Yangchen Dolkar Tsatultsang, one of the few female Tibetan sūtra translators in the world.
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27 May 2017
John Canti, 84000 Editorial Chair, shares his thoughts about the unique challenges of working with a well-established existing translation.
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26 May 2017
Meet translator Robert Thurman and learn about his decades-long relationship with “The Sūtra of the Teaching of Vimalakīrti.”
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1 Apr 2017
Review the concept of Dependent Arising and explore the reflections on the experience of translating “The Sūtra on Dependent Arising.”
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