Buddhist Scriptures

Dzogchen is found earliest in the Nyingma and Bon traditions and later incorporated into some of the Kagyu traditions. Learn about its historical development in Tibet from the 8th century to the present.

Buddha taught in such a way that everyone could understand his words in their own language. That means that it is possible to convey the Buddhist teachings in all languages, no matter how challenging that might be.

Examine the meaning of oral transmission and how it can be adapted in the digital age.

The qualifications a translator of Buddhist texts must have and guidelines for how to translate Tibetan texts.

Buddha spoke of karma, as recorded in his sutras, while his disciples and later generations elaborated his teachings on karma in their abhidharma compilations.

Long before translators began to render Tibetan Buddhist texts into Western languages, the Mongols had successfully undertaken this task.