By Dr. Alexander Berzin | Founder and Author of Berzin Archives
This spring, we have made impressive progress in translating content into our existing languages, as well as the eleven new languages launched more than a year ago. Overall, this quarter has seen eight new translations of articles every single day. We also continue to translate subtitles for our growing YouTube channel, allowing our multimedia content to reach people in every continent on the planet.
Recently, Google announced new metrics to rank page experience for end-users, and we have started the mammoth task of ensuring that our website’s content is up-to-date and follows all of the recommendations. This is vital work, so that we keep ranking consistently high on Google search and also so that our users have the best website experience on both desktop and mobile devices.
Our social media channels are exploding, as we race towards 50,000 followers on Facebook and 30,000 subscribers on YouTube. Our YouTube channel’s views are up 20% compared to the previous three-month period, as we add more titles, descriptions, and subtitles in our 32 languages.
Speaking of YouTube, we have two exciting video series coming up. First of all, we have our interview with Dr. Andrey Terentyev ready to be released shortly. In this fascinating series, Dr. Terentyev discusses the history of Buddhism in imperial Russia, opens up about Buddhist life during the Soviet era, and discusses the future of Buddhism in the region. After this, we will release an interview with Menri Trizin Rinpoche, the spiritual leader of the Bön tradition and the abbot of Menri Monastery in Dolanji, India.
Lastly, but by no means least, this May we celebrated five years since the rebirth of the Berzin Archives as Study Buddhism, the beautiful website you have all come to use and love. Through the immense effort and hard work of dozens of people across the world, we have added 11 new languages, now covering the whole of the traditional Buddhist world. These five years have seen 6500 new articles and translations go online (that’s 25 every single week!), 440 videos (more than 7 every month), and a staggering 7700 subtitle files. You, our donors, all help to make this possible. Thank you so much!
You’ll find all the details of what we’ve been up to in the bulleted list below. Here are some of our accomplishments over these last three months:
All of this hard work is made possible by your continuing generous support. Together, we shall “Make the Ageless Wisdom of Tibet Available to All.”
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