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- དཔལ་གྱི་སྡེའི་རྟོགས་པ་བརྗོད་པ།
- Śrīsenāvadāna
The end of all accumulation is dispersion.
The end of rising is falling.
The end of meeting is parting.
The end of living is dying.
A global non-profit initiative to translate the Buddha’s words from the Tibetan Buddhist Canon into modern languages, and to make them available to everyone
As a grants-based translation project and online publication house, we leverage and integrate new technologies to make our digital library of the Buddha’s wisdom as accessible and beneficial as possible to readers, practitioners, and scholars around the world.
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About the Project
Our Work
With a strong editorial team, we award text-specific grants to translation teams around the world, working collaboratively to ensure accurate and credible translations of Classical Tibetan Buddhist texts that will form a cohesive Canon upon completion. We integrate new publication technologies in order to deliver these 231,800 pages of the wisdom to you, in English, online, for free.
Our Impact
As of 2010, only 5% of the Tibetan Buddhist Canon had been translated out of Classical Tibetan—a language facing a serious threat to its survival. In ten years, we have published or have in-translation over 36,000 pages of the Kangyur, not only making deeper international academic inquiry possible, but as our readership grows around the world, we put the wisdom that the Canon contains at the fingertips of readers like you.
Our People
Our work relies upon the dedicated and collaborative effort of scholars, professionals, volunteers, advisors, and sponsors around the world. We work remotely and online, across timezones and continents, and we greatly value each and every member of our team. This virtual teamwork has been a major source of both pride and humility as we produce accurate and credible translations and make them available to you online, for free.
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News
NEW PUBLICATION
15 Apr 2021
The Account of the Noble Deeds of Śrīsena belongs to one of the most beloved narrative genres in Buddhism, the past life story (avadāna), and deals with one of the most powerful and pervasive themes in this genre, the bodhisattva’s bodily sacrifice for the benefit of living beings.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
9 Apr 2021
Over the last ten years, many scholars around the world have contributed to the translations published by 84000. To further strengthen the opportunity for younger scholars to contribute to the project, 84000 is now offering two post-doctoral grants to work on translations of texts from the Kangyur.
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NEW PUBLICATION
8 Apr 2021
The Account of the Noble Deeds of Puṇyabala is written in one the most recognizable literary forms in Buddhism: the Buddha’s past-life stories. This tale focuses on the benefits of accruing merit. Puṇyabala is a young prince whose store of merit is so great that he acquires untold riches and power.
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NEW PUBLICATION
31 Mar 2021
The Noble Dhāraṇī “The Mother of Avalokiteśvara”1 begins in the city of Vaiśālī, where the Buddha is residing amidst an assembly of monks and bodhisattvas. The bodhisattva Samantabhadra requests that he reveal the powerful dhāraṇī known as The Mother of Avalokiteśvara, and the Buddha agrees.
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PEOPLE
30 Mar 2021
As we mark the anniversary of the Bir Conference 2009 that gave birth to our growing initiative, we sit down with Ivy Ang, who—appointed by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche to facilitate those historic six days—has since been there with us every step of the way.
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MILESTONES
30 Mar 2021
With its 2,158 Tibetan pages, The Application of Mindfulness of the Sacred Dharma is a vast treasury of Dharma and a splendid piece of world literature that stands out as one of the greatest literary works of classical India, notable for its vivid and exceedingly detailed depiction of the various realms of saṃsāra.
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PEOPLE
30 Mar 2021
Building on our aspiration to revitalize interest in the foundations of the Buddhadharma, we took to the road (virtually, of course) to ask some of our friends from across the Himalayas which their favorite 84000 Reading Room features are, and why.
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NEW PUBLICATION
25 Mar 2021
In this profound Mahāyāna sūtra, The Dhāraṇī of the Jewel Torch, the Buddha Śākyamuni explains, with the help of the bodhisattvas Mañjuśrī, Samantabhadra, and Dharmamati, how bodhisattvas progress toward awakening.
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EVENTS
23 Mar 2021
Last Saturday we hosted 84000’s first public webinar, a talk entitled, The Kangyur: Holy Relic; Time Capsule; or Goldmine? in which 84000 Editorial Co-Director, Dr. John Canti led us in a one-hour exploration of how the Tibetan Buddhist Canon came to be, and how today’s world can engage with it in ways that ….
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NEW PUBLICATION
18 Mar 2021
The Buddha Śākyamuni proceeds to give a detailed account of the previous aspirations of those seven buddhas to benefit beings who are veiled by karmic obscurations, tormented by illnesses, and plagued by mental anguish and suffering.
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EVENTS
16 Mar 2021
Join us this Saturday, March 20, to hear editorial co-director, Dr. John Canti, in conversation with Joie Chen, on how the Kangyur came to be, how it has been and continues to be used, and the many treasures it contains.
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