20 May 2023
It’s time to REJOICE!
As we enter this auspicious month marking the birth, awakening, and parinirvāṇa of the Buddha, we invite all those who supported our recent campaign, The Perfection of Wisdom for All, to SAVE THE DATE: June 18.
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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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20 May 2023
歡喜讚嘆！
於此歡慶佛陀誕生、成道和涅槃的薩嘎達瓦節吉祥月伊始，84000誠意邀請所有參與「點亮心燈 傳譯般若」的護持者，於6月18日和我們一起線上相聚。
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28 Feb 2023
With the publication of this translation from the Tengyur, we have now activated a new 84000 Reading Room feature that may become a valuable research tool for those involved in the study of canonical Buddhist texts. It is now possible …
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22 Feb 2023
84000經典導讀系列邀請法友們在佛教節慶吉祥日一起來學習和實踐佛陀的教誨。
在神變日當天，84000邀請了吉美欽哲仁波切開示「願」。
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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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1 Jan 2023
On New Year’s Day, we are launching The Perfection of Wisdom for All—a crowdfunding campaign to bring 10,000 pages of the Buddha’s words to life for the first time in history!
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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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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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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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26 May 2023
Set on Gayāśīrṣa, the hill near Bodhgayā from which its title is derived, the sūtra presents its teaching in the form of the Buddha’s inward examination, a conversation between the Buddha and the bodhisattva Mañjuśrī, and dialogues between Mañjuśrī and three interlocutors—two gods and a bodhisattva.
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12 May 2023
In this Sūtra, the Buddha presents to the brahmin youth Śuka Taudeyaputra a discourse on the workings of karma. This is enlivened by many examples drawn from the rich heritage of Buddhist narrative literature, providing a detailed analysis of how deeds lead to specific consequences in the future.
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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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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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14 Apr 2023
Teaching the Eleven Thoughts takes place just before the Buddha attains parinirvāṇa, when he bequeaths his final testament to the assembled monks in the form of a brief discourse on eleven thoughts toward which the mind should be directed at the moment of death.
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31 Mar 2023
The Sūtra on Impermanence (Anityatāsūtra) is a short discourse on the impermanence of conditioned states. The Buddha explains that it does not matter what one’s social status is, whether one is born in a heaven, or even if one has realized awakening and is an arhat, a pratyekabuddha, or a buddha.
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17 Mar 2023
While dwelling on Vulture Peak in Rājagṛha, the Buddha is absorbed in the meditative concentration called wheel of meditative concentration. In response to a series of questions posed by the Buddha, Mañjuśrī explains the nature of ultimate reality.
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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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