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…novels. Translators are writers and should have a developed sense for what constitutes good writing. Finally, one needs to think about what it means to translate. It’s not a straightforward…
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…to Sanskrit translations. They might not change the overall meaning of the passage—though in the worst cases they might—but to translate the text accurately we have to do our best…
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…As there had been no prior experience in conducting a resounding of any magnitude online, the team decided it would be best to keep it somewhat small and manageable for…
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…come to read the Kangyur online [in the online Reading Room]. Although in a way these days on the internet there are many people who do all sorts of things,…
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…more than 2,500 readers or so come to read the Kangyur online [in the online Reading Room]. Although in a way these days on the internet there are many people…
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…moved to eastern Nepal to establish tuberculosis programs in two remote hill districts virtually without health services.Beginning in 1980, he undertook two consecutive three-year retreats in the Dordogne, France, practising…
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…motion‌ the most extensive of all sūtras—the Prajñāpāramitā. Committed to writing around the start of the first millennium, these sūtras were expanded and contracted in the centuries that followed, eventually…
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…meaning of the sutra. They should work together through each sutra. If the Tibetan scholar writes, reads and speaks English; that is the best. Not only having one person translate….
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