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As many readers have expressed interest in the ongoing work and projects of Berzin Archives, I am starting this page as an informal way of keeping people informed, updated, and involved. From time to time, I shall make further entries. With continuing support from our readers and much hard work from our Berzin Archives team, we hope that all these projects will be completed and online in the near future.
New English articles online:
Visualization
Transcribed English audio files that arrived and will need editing:
Overview of Tantra (part 4)
New German translations online:
Text of Seven-Point Attitude Training – Togmey-zangpo edition
Text of Seven-Point Attitude Training – Togmey-zangpo edition with annotation
Text of Seven-Point Attitude Training – Pabongka edition
General explanation of Seven-Point Attitude Training (3 parts)
Revised German translations online:
Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship (chapters 9 - 15)
Completed German translations that arrived and were sent for editing:
The Nature of Time as a Temporal Interval
New Russian articles online:
Root Bodhisattva Vows
How to Lead an Ethical Life – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Completed Russian translations that arrived and were sent for editing:
Finding Inner Peace and Fulfillment – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Achieving Peace through Inner Peace – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
New English audio files recorded:
Introduction to the Four Noble Truths (3 parts)
Transcribed English audio files that arrived and will need editing:
Overview of Tantra (part 3)
New English-Spanish audio files recorded:
The Four Themes of Gampopa as Presented in Drugpa Kagyu by Padma-karpo (1 part)
New English-Spanish audio files online:
Advice for Studying Voidness (Emptiness) (2 parts)
Brief Survey of Self-Voidness and Other-Voidness Views (2 parts)
Completed and edited Spanish translations that arrived:
Bringing Buddhism Down to Earth (part 4)
Completed Russian translations that arrived and were sent for editing:
Developing Balanced Sensitivity (chapter 20)
Articles sent for Russian translation:
Finding Inner Peace and Fulfillment – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
How to Lead an Ethical Life – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Achieving Peace through Inner Peace – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Establishing Harmony within Religious Diversity – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
What Is the Self, Does the Self Have a Beginning, Will It Have an End? – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Compassion as the Source of Happiness – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Compassion Based on Biology and Reason – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
New English-Spanish audio files recorded:
Self-Transformation through Attitude-Training (Lojong) (1 part)
Going from Renunciation to Compassion (1 part)
Practices for Integrating One’s Life (6 parts)
Proofread transcripts of online English audio files that arrived:
Advice on Practicing Buddhism in the West (1 part)
Completed Russian translations that arrived and were sent for editing:
Developing Balanced Sensitivity (chapter 19)
Articles sent for Spanish translation:
Finding Inner Peace and Fulfillment – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
How to Lead an Ethical Life – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Achieving Peace through Inner Peace – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Establishing Harmony within Religious Diversity – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Belief in One Truth or Many Truths – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
The Relevance of Religion in Modern Times – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
What Is the Self, Does the Self Have a Beginning, Will It Have an End? – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Religious Harmony, Compassion, and Islam – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Compassion as the Source of Happiness – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Compassion Based on Biology and Reason – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
New English articles online:
The Purification Method Used in Anuttarayoga Tantra
Tibetan-English Glossary of Astrology Terms
Tibetan-English Glossary of Mahamudra Technical Terms
New English-Spanish audio files recorded:
Self-Transformation through the Lam-rim Graded Stages (7 parts)
Transcribed English audio files that arrived and will need editing:
Overview of Tantra (part 2)
Recognizing the Five Types of Deep Awareness (part 5)
New German translations online:
Compassion as the Source of Happiness – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Revised German translations online:
Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship (chapter 8)
Articles sent for German translation:
Interview for the Kalmyk Mandala Magazine Concerning Buddhist Translation
Portuguese section of the website now online.
New English articles online:
Seven-Point Attitude-Training – Namkapel edition
A Commentary on Attitude-Training Like the Rays of the Sun – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama (6 parts)
Peace through Inner Peace – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Establishing Harmony within Religious Diversity – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
New English articles completed and sent for formatting and uploading:
Tibetan-English Glossary of Tibetan Astrology and Astronomy Technical Terms
Edited English transcripts that arrived and need final editing:
Visualization
Transcribed English audio files received and sent for editing:
Commentary on Atisha’s Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment – Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche I
English transcripts sent for editing:
Dealing with Anger
English audio files sent for transcribing:
The Nature of Mental Appearances – Gelug Explanation (5 parts)
English audio files sent for audio editing:
Visualization (3 parts)
Guru-yoga (11 parts)
Transcripts of online English audio files sent for proofreading:
Advice on Practicing Buddhism in the West (1 part)
Approaching Buddhism in a Balanced Way (2 parts)
Meditation Methods (1 part)
How to Meditate on a Precious Human Life (1 part)
Explanation of Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment (5 parts)
Mahamudra and the Four Noble Truths (2 parts)
An Overview of the Ninth Karmapa’s Mahamudra Eliminating the Darkness of Unawareness (2 parts)
New German translations online:
A Summary Report of the 2007 International Congress on the Women’s Role in the Sangha: Bhikshuni Vinaya and Ordination Lineages (4 parts)
Completed German translations that arrived and were sent for editing:
Compassion as the Source of Happiness – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Completed Russian translations that arrived and were sent for editing:
Developing Balanced Sensitivity (chapter 18)
Articles sent for Spanish translation:
Text of Bodhisattva Garland of Gems
Text of Seven-Point Attitude-Training (Togmey-zangpo edition with annotation)
Text of Thirty-seven Bodhisattva Practices (2006 literal translation).
Completed and edited Chinese translations that arrived:
The Spread of Buddhism in Asia
Introductory History of the Five Tibetan Traditions of Buddhism and Bon
Indian Society and Thought before and at the Time of Buddha
New English articles online:
Interview for the Kalmyk Mandala Magazine Concerning Buddhist Translation
Transcribed English audio files that arrived and will need editing:
Recognizing the Five Types of Deep Awareness (part 4)
Introductory Explanation for Studying The Three Principal Aspects of the Path (3 parts)
Digitized English handwritten files that arrived and will need editing:
Notes on Scott, David Alan. "Buddhist Attitude to Hellenism: A Review of the Issue," Studies in Religion/Sciences, Rebegeuses, vol 15 no.4 (1986), 433-441.
Notes on Melikian, Chirvani, A.S., "The Buddhist Ritual in the Literature of Early Islamic Iran" in South Asian Archeology (1981), 272-279.
Notes on Bausani, A. "Religion under the Mongols" in The Cambridge History of Iran, vol. 5: The Seljuk and Mongol Periods, J. A. Boyle (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1958, 538-549.
Completed Russian translations that arrived and were sent for editing:
Developing Balanced Sensitivity (chapter 17)
Completed Spanish translations that arrived and were sent for editing:
Text of Abbreviated Points of the Graded Path – Tsongkhapa
Text of Three Principal Aspects of the Path – Tsongkhapa
Text of Eight-Verse Attitude-Training – Langri-tangpa
Completed and edited French translations that arrived:
Finding Inner Peace and Fulfillment -- His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Being proofread:
The formatted and uploaded Portuguese section of the website
New English eBooks and articles completed and sent for formatting and uploading:
A Commentary on Attitude-Training Like the Rays of the Sun – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama (6 parts)
Seven-Point Attitude-Training – Namkapel edition
Interview for the Kalmyk Mandala Magazine Concerning Buddhist Translation
Edited English transcripts that arrived and need final editing:
Sangha
English transcript sent for editing:
Visualization
Transcribed English audio files that arrived and will need editing:
Recognizing the Five Types of Deep Awareness (part 3)
English audio files sent for transcribing:
Overview of Tantra (7 parts)
New German translations online:
Buddhism and Science
Revised German translations online:
Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship (chapter 7)
Completed Russian translations that arrived and were sent for editing:
Developing Balanced Sensitivity (chapter 16)
Completed and edited Portuguese translations that arrived:
Issues in Buddhist Sexual Ethics
Completed and edited Chinese translations that arrived:
A Buddhist View of Islam
The Relation between Buddhism and Sufism: Response to Majid Tehranian
Holy Wars in Buddhism and Islam: The Myth of Shambhala (abridged version)
The Kalachakra Presentation of the Prophets of the Non-Indic Invaders (abridged analysis)
The Kalachakra Presentation of the Prophets of the Non-Indic Invaders (summary)
Articles sent for Chinese translation:
The Spread of Buddhism in Asia
Introductory History of the Five Tibetan Traditions of Buddhism and Bon
Indian Society and Thought before and at the Time of Buddha
A Brief History of Buddhism in India before the Thirteenth-Century Invasions
Establishment of the Bhikshuni Order in India
History of the Theravada Ordination Lineages
History of the Mulasarvastivada Ordination Lineage in Tibet
Revival of the Monk Ordination Lineage in Tenth-Century Tibet
The Origin of the Yellow Hat Worn by Monks in the Gelug Tradition
The Life of Shakyamuni Buddha
Biography of Nagarjuna
Short Biography of Tsongkhapa