Journey and Milestones
Background Information
Experience
André Rodrigues
Senior Digital Editor and Glossary Lead
André Rodrigues has been a translator for Padmakara Translation Group, into Portuguese, since 2012. He joined 84.000 in 2017, on a part-time basis, and currently focuses on managing the glossary resources.
André Rodrigues first trained and worked as an architect in Lisbon, where he grew up, and also in Venice and London. But, having found Buddhism in his early teens, all that merely served to quench his curiosity about saṃsāric life. In any case, the broad scope of an architect’s training, learning to structure ideas and creative problem solving, have proven to be very useful in all fields.
In his mid-twenties, he started to devote himself solely to Buddhist studies and practice, completing an extended three-year retreat in Chanteloube in 2012. With the encouragement of his teachers, he studied (and continues to study) Tibetan. He currently is translating Dharma texts from Tibetan into Portuguese, and is the coordinator of the Portuguese language branch of the Padmakara Translation Group.
He started working part-time for 84000 in January 2017, taking the texts through the publication stages, making sure that the online glossaries show the right terms and so on. He feels privileged to be part of this incredible endeavor and to have the chance to read and learn from these precious texts.