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Q&A | Publishing Translations from the Tengyur

28 Feb 2023

We are delighted to have recently announced the publication of our very first translation from the Tengyur: a commentary on the Long Perfection of Wisdom sūtras. We work on the research and translation of texts for years and spend hundreds …
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Teachings on Sūtra | Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche

22 Feb 2023

This Chötrul Düchen Teachings on Sūtra episode features Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche speaking on ‘Aspiration.’ Rinpoche tells the story of the Buddha’s previous life as Samudrareṇu (“Ocean Particle”) in The White Lotus of Compassion (Karuṇāpuṇḍarīka-sutra, Toh 112). 84000 will be publishing the translation later this year.
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眾籌計畫|點亮心燈 傳譯般若

1 Jan 2023

《般若波羅蜜多十萬頌》這部經承載著大乘佛教的核心教義,是佛陀言教中極為重要且篇幅最長的經典之一, 亦是般若波羅蜜多經典於人間所得中最長篇的,記載了佛陀於靈鷲山長達30年裡最詳盡的傳法開示。

2023年1月1日,我們將啟動「點亮心燈 傳譯般若」眾籌計畫,以期將這一萬頁經典完整地翻譯成英文並出版!這部經的篇幅佔《甘珠爾》經典的15%,預計翻譯出版週期將為5-8年。在一些護持者的發心贊助下,大部份經費已經籌獲,餘款將以眾籌方式廣邀十方大眾共植福田,共同成就將英文版經典首次呈現世間的功德!
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《心經》慶典

31 Aug 2022

為了慶祝84000所翻譯《甘珠爾》經典的數量於2022年6月達到了一個歷史性的里程碑,宗薩欽哲仁波切曾以當時發佈的經典「般若波羅蜜多——究竟圓滿之智慧」爲主題給予了導讀。接下來,仁波切將在新加坡與李連杰先生以《心經》爲主題進行一場對談,探討《心經》所留給我們的財富及其如何影響當今時代。

此次《心經》慶典結合了慶祝活動和角色扮演舞會,悉心裝扮而來的現場賓客將親身體驗以《心經》作為靈感啟發出的各種感官體驗。
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Celebrating The Heart Sūtra

31 Aug 2022

This year 84000 published an English translation of The Perfection of Wisdom, marking the availability of 25 percent of the Kangyur in English. In June, our Founding Chair Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche offered a beautiful introduction to the sūtra, and we …
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Sūtras in the Clouds: Making it Rain with Dharma

28 Apr 2023

“It’s in the cloud.” Though it has been less than twenty years since that metaphorical expression was first coined (by Eric Schmidt of Google at a conference in 2006), many of us are now as accustomed to understanding “the cloud” to mean a huge store of digital data, somewhere up there in cyberspace that we can access from anywhere, as we are to the real clouds up there in the sky. But Buddhist tradition has been using clouds in a similar metaphor for at least two thousand years.
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New Publications: The Great Cloud (1) and The Great Cloud (2)

28 Apr 2023

Two new publications include, The Great Cloud—an important Mahāyāna sūtra, known particularly as one source of the idea that a tathāgata is permanent and does not really pass into parinirvāṇa, but strategically displays an illusory body; and The Great Cloud (2), a brief discourse identified more precisely in its colophon as a supplementary chapter from The Great Cloud on “the array of winds that bring down rainfall.”
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New Publication: The Great Lion’s Roar of Maitreya

3 Mar 2023

In this sūtra, Mahākāśyapa poses a series of questions to the Buddha about proper monastic conduct and practice, which the Buddha answers at length. Mahākāśyapa then requests the Buddha to remain in the world in order to safeguard the Dharma, but when the Buddha initially predicts that Mahākāśyapa himself will do so in the future, Mahākāśyapa insists that for the Dharma to remain for long, it must be entrusted to a bodhisattva rather than a śrāvaka.
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