Work in Progress: Second Quarter 2008

30 June 2008

New English articles online:

• Milarepa Songs of Nonattachment to Family, Friends, and Wealth – Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey
• Milarepa Leads a Youth to the True Nature of the Mind – Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey
• A Maitreya Prayer for Future Lives – Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey
• A Survey of Tibetan History (chapter 1: The Empire of the Early Kings of Tibet)
• A Survey of Tibetan History (chapter 2: The Struggle for Religious Survival after the Fall of the Tibetan Empire)
• A Survey of Tibetan History (chapter 3: Tibetan Lamas and Mongol Patrons)
• A Survey of Tibetan History (chapter 4: The Pagmodru, Rinpung, and Tsangpa Hegemonies)
• Overview of the Lam-rim Graded Pathways of Mind – Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche I

New English audio files recorded:

• The Nature of Mental Appearances - Gelug Explanation (9 parts)

English audio files sent for transcription:

• Compassion as the Source of Happiness – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
• How to Deal with Negative Emotions – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
• The Nature of the Mind – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
• Finding Inner Peace and Fulfillment – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
• How to Lead an Ethical Life – 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

English transcriptions sent for editing:

• Commentary on Namkapel’s Attitude-Training Like the Rays of the Sun – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama (6 parts)

New German translations online:

• The Sixteen Aspects and Sixteen Distorted Ways of Embracing the Four Noble Truths

Completed German translations sent for editing:

• The Eight Branches of an Arya Pathway Mind

Revised German translations that arrived and were sent for editing:

• Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship (chapters 6-7)

Completed French translations that arrived and will need editing:

• The Spread of Buddhism in Asia

Articles sent for French translation:

• The Life of Shakyamuni Buddha

23 June 2008

New English articles online:

• Impermanence as a Resource for Building Healthy Relationships

Online English articles revised:

• The Abbreviated Points of the Graded Path – Tsongkhapa

Transcribed English audio files that arrived and will need editing:

• Introduction to the Mind and Mental Factors (part 1)
• Meditation for Recognizing the Five Aggregates (part 7)

English transcriptions sent for editing:

• Overview of the Lam-rim Graded Pathways of Mind – Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche I
• Milarepa Songs of Nonattachment to Family, Friends, and Wealth – Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey
• Milarepa Leads a Youth to the True Nature of the Mind – Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey

English audio files sent for transcription:

• Recognizing the Five Types of Deep Awareness (7 parts)

Completed Russian translations that arrived and were sent for editing:

• Developing Balanced Sensitivity (chapter 2)

Articles sent for French translation:

• Dharma in Daily Life
• Integrating Dharma into Our Lives

Completed Swedish translations that arrived and were sent for editing:

• Integrating Dharma into Our Lives
• The Appeal of Buddhism in the Modern World

Articles sent for Swedish translation:

• The Spread of Buddhism in Asia
• The Current Situation of Buddhism in the World
• The Buddhist View toward Other Religions
• Belief in One Truth or Many Truths
• The Relevance of Religion in Modern Times
• Religious Harmony, Compassion, and Islam
• Approaches to the Dharma - Intellectual, Emotional, and Devotional
• "Dharma-Lite" Versus "The Real Thing" Dharma
• Avoiding Confusion in the Spiritual Student-Teacher Relationship
• Scheme for Analyzing the Dynamics of a Relation with a Spiritual Teacher

16 June 2008

New English audio files online:

• Incorrect Consideration and Voidness (7 parts)

Digitized English reading notes editing completed:

• Shakabpa, W. D. Tibet: A Political History (chapter 4)

English audio files sent for transcribing:

• Introduction to the Mind and Mental Factors (4 parts)

Completed German translations that arrived and were sent for editing:

• Text of Engaging in Bodhisattva Behavior – Shantideva (chapter 5)

Completed German translations being edited:

• Happiness: An In-depth Analysis of Its Role in Sutra and Tantra (3 parts)

New Russian translations online:

• A Brief History of Nalendra Monastery
• A Brief History of Gyumay and Gyuto Lower and Upper Tantric Colleges
• A Brief History of Labrang Monastery
• A Brief History of Sakya Monastery
• The Origin of the Yellow Hat Worn by Monks in the Gelug Tradition

Articles sent for French translation:

• The Spread of Buddhism in Asia

Completed Italian translations that were sent for editing:

• Short Biography of Alexander Berzin
• Approaches to the Dharma - Intellectual, Emotional, and Devotional
• Dharma in Daily Life
• "Dharma-Lite" Versus "The Real Thing" Dharma
• A Portrait of Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche
• Relationship with a Spiritual Teacher in Two Lifetimes
• Avoiding Confusion in the Spiritual Student-Teacher Relationship
• Scheme for Analyzing the Dynamics of a Relation with a Spiritual Teacher
• Advice from His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama on Teaching Lam-rim
• Lam-rim Structured According to the Four Noble Truths
• The Endpoint of Samsara Is Suffering, the Endpoint of Dharma Is Happiness - Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche I
• Bon and Tibetan Buddhism
• Introductory Comparison of the Five Tibetan Traditions of Buddhism and Bon
• Basic Features of Tantra
• Introductory History of the Five Tibetan Traditions of Buddhism and Bon

9 June 2008

English audio files sent for transcribing:

• Overview of A Root Text on Gelug-Kagyu Mahamudra (8 parts)

Digitized English reading notes editing completed:

• Shakabpa, W. D. Tibet: A Political History (chapter 3)

Completed German translations that arrived and were sent for editing:

• Gelug Definitions of Affirmation and Negation Phenomena

Articles sent for German translation:

• Affirmations, Negations, and Denumerable and Nondenumerable Ultimate Phenomena

Completed Russian translations that arrived and were sent for editing:

• Developing Balanced Sensitivity (preface, chapter 1)

Completed Swedish translations that arrived and were sent for editing:

• Buddhism in Daily Life

Articles sent for Swedish translation:

• Integrating Dharma into Our Lives

Articles sent for Italian translation:

• Integrating Dharma into Our Lives

2 June 2008

New English articles online:

• Basic Tenets of the Nyaya and Vaisheshika Schools of Indian Buddhism
• Basic Tenets of the Samkhya and Yoga Schools of Indian Buddhism

Online English articles revised:

• In Praise of Dependent Arising - Tsongkhapa

New English audio files online:

• Overview of Tantra (7 parts)

Digitized English reading notes editing completed:

• Shakabpa, W. D. Tibet: A Political History (chapter 1-2)

Transcribed English audio files that arrived and will need editing:

• Meditation for Recognizing the Five Aggregates (parts 5-6)

English transcriptions sent for editing:

• Impermanence as a Resource for Building Healthy Relationships

New Russian translations online:

• The Appeal of Buddhism in the Modern World
• Advice from H. H. the Fourteenth Dalai Lama on Teaching Lam-rim
• Approaches to the Dharma – Intellectual, Emotional, and Devotional

Articles sent for Russian translation:

• Developing Balanced Sensitivity (20 chapters)
• Religious Conversion in Shambhala
• Introduction to Tibetan Medicine

Articles sent for Swedish translation:

• Buddhism in Daily Life

26 May 2008

New English articles online:

• Introductory Comparison of Hinayana and Mahayana
• Comparison of the Hinayana and Mahayana Assertions of the Understandings of Voidness by Arhats and Buddhas

Digitized English reading notes that arrived and were sent for editing:

• Shakabpa, W. D. Tibet: A Political History (chapter 8)

 New German translations online:

• Text of Engaging in Bodhisattva Behavior – Shantideva (chapters 3 - 4)
• Overview of the Gelug Monastic Education System – Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche II

Completed German translations that arrived and were sent for editing:

• Text of Engaging in Bodhisattva Behavior – Shantideva (chapter 4)

 Revised German translations that arrived and were sent for editing:

• Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship (chapters 1-5)

 Articles sent for German translation:

• Text of Engaging in Bodhisattva Behavior – Shantideva (chapter 5)

 German translations sent for revision:

• Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship (chapter 5)
• Developing Balanced Sensitivity (preface and chapter 1)

Completed Russian translations that arrived and were sent for editing:

• Bringing Buddhism Down to Earth (parts 6-7)

19 May 2008

New English audio files online:

• Introduction to the Sixteen Aspects of the Four Noble Truths in Sutra and Tantra (2 parts)
• Buddha-Nature and the Clear Light Mind
• Voidness Meditation in Kalachakra Practice
• The Life of Tsongkhapa
• Elaboration of the Special Features of the Gelug Tradition (2 parts)

Transcription of English audio files that arrived and will need editing

• Overview of Uttaratantra (The Furthest Everlasting Continuum) (6 parts)

Completed Russian translations that arrived and were sent for editing:

• Bringing Buddhism Down to Earth (part 5)

Articles sent for Russian translation:

• Historical Sketch of the Muslims of Tibet

Completed and edited Spanish translations that arrived:

• Mahamudra and the Four Noble Truths (part 2)

12 May 2008

Digitized English reading notes that arrived and were sent for editing:

• Shakabpa, W. D. Tibet: A Political History (chapter 7)
• Pinks, Elizabeth. “Die Uiguren von Kan-chou in der frühen Sung-Zeit (960-1028)”
• Weiers, Michael. “Das Khanat Tschaghatai”

New German translations online:

• A Deluded Outlook toward a Transitory Network
• Guidelines from the Mongolian Experience for Translating Tibetan Buddhist Texts
• Kalachakra Does Not Advocate or Predict an Actual World Armageddon

Completed German translations that arrived and were sent for editing:

• Text of Engaging in Bodhisattva Behavior – Shantideva (chapter 3)
• The Sensitivity Handbook: Training Materials for Developing Balanced Sensitivity (chapters 1-10)

Articles for German translation:

• The Nature of Time as a Temporal Interval
• What Does a Buddha Know in Knowing the Past, Present, and Future (6 parts)

Completed Russian translations that arrived and were sent for editing:

• Bringing Buddhism Down to Earth (part 5)
• Basic Scheme of the Five Aggregate Factors of Experience

Completed and edited Polish translations that arrived:

• Basic Questions on Karma and Rebirth

Completed and edited Spanish translations that arrived:

• Secondary Bodhisattva Vows

5 May 2008

New features made available:

• RSS feed option available for being informed of new items in the English, German, or Russian sections
• Option for downloading the entire website for personal use

Digitized English articles that arrived and were sent for editing:

• A Discourse on Namkapel’s Rays of the Sun Attitude-Training – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama (4 parts)

 Digitized English reading notes that arrived and were sent for editing:

• Shakabpa, W. D. Tibet: A Political History (chapter 6)

 English reading notes sent for digitizing:

• Pinks, Elizabeth. "Die Uiguren von Kan-chou in der frühen Sung-Zeit (960-1028)"

 New German translations online:

• Text of Engaging in Bodhisattva Behavior – Shantideva (chapters 1-2)
• The Sixty-two Wrong Views

New Russian translations online:

• Guidelines from the Mongolian Experience for Translating Tibetan Buddhist Texts

 Completed and edited Portuguese translations that arrived:

• Paraphrase of Advice from an Experienced Old Man – Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey
• Introduction to Buddhism from an Islamic Point of View

Completed Polish translations that arrived and were sent for editing:

• Basic Questions on Karma and Rebirth

28 April 2008

Digitized English reading notes that arrived and were sent for editing:

• Shakabpa, W. D. Tibet: A Political History (chapter 3-5) 

New German translations online:

• Text of The Wheel of Sharp Weapons (2006 Literal Translation) - Dharmarakshita
• Belief in One Truth or Many Truths – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama

New Russian translations online:

• Address to the Monks of Ganden, Drepung, and Sera about Buddhism in Foreign
• Dealing with Difficult Experiences That Arise in Meditation and Retreat
• Integrating Dharma into Our Lives

Completed Russian translations that arrived and were sent for editing:

• Bringing Buddhism Down to Earth (part 4) 

Completed and edited Spanish translations that arrived:

• Common Root Tantric Vows 

Completed Spanish translations that arrived and were sent for editing:

• Secondary Bodhisattva Vows

21 April 2008

Handwritten English reading notes sent for digitizing:

• Shakabpa, W. D. Tibet: A Political History (18 chapters)

Digitized English reading notes sent for editing:

• Shakabpa, W. D. Tibet: A Political History (chapter 2)

English manuscript sent for editing:

• The Tibetan Culture of Central Asia; Buddhism, Medicine, Calendar and Astrology. Part One: The History of Buddhism (7 chapters)

New Russian translations online:

• Belief in One Truth or Many Truths – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
• Taking the Kalachakra Initiation (12 chapters)

Completed Russian translations that arrived and were sent for editing:

• Bringing Buddhism Down to Earth (part 3)

14 April 2008

English article revised and online:

• A Deluded Outlook toward a Transitory Network

Transcribed English audio files that arrived and will need editing:

• Meditation for Recognizing the Five Aggregates (parts 3-4)

Handwritten English reading notes sent for digitizing:

• Ratnayaka, Shanta, “The Bodhisattva Ideal in Theravada.”

New German translations online:

• The Heart Sutra

Completed German translations that arrived and were sent for editing:

• Engaging in Bodhisattva Behavior – Shantideva (chapters 1-3)

Completed Russian translations that arrived and were sent for editing:

• Bringing Buddhism Down to Earth (part 2)

Articles sent for Russian translation:

• The Twelve Links of Dependent Arising (3 parts)

Completed and edited Portuguese translations that arrived:

• The Kalachakra Presentation of the Prophets of the Non-Indic Invaders – Summary

Completed and edited Polish translations that arrived:

• Basic Questions on Detachment, Nonviolence, and Compassion

Articles sent for Polish translation:

• Basic Questions on Karma and Rebirth

Preliminary studies launched for compilation of:

• The Polish glossary
• The Chinese glossary

7 April 2008

Transcribed English audio files that arrived and will need editing:

• Meditation for Recognizing the Five Aggregates (part 2)

English articles sent for digitizing:

• A Discourse on Namkapel’s Rays of the Sun Attitude-Training – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama (4 parts)

Completed German translations that arrived and were sent for editing:

• Explanation for The Foundation for Good Qualities – Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche I (6 parts)

Completed Russian translations that arrived and were sent for editing:

• Bringing Buddhism Down to Earth (part 1)

Articles sent for Russian translation:

• Compassion Based on Biology and Reason – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
• Workshop for Tibetans Translating Dharma: Report

Completed and edited Portuguese translations that arrived:

• Religious Harmony, Compassion, and Islam – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
• The Relevance of Religion in Modern Times – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama