By Dr. Alexander Berzin | Founder and Author of Berzin Archives
Over the summer, our work at Study Buddhism HQ has continued as we fine-tune the website and bring small changes that create a much better user experience. We’ve been exploring ways to make our recently-released functionality – personal user accounts – more useful and feature-rich. Furthermore, we’ve created new icons and launched them across the site, making it very easy to distinguish between text-only articles, articles that feature audio, articles that feature video, and articles that feature both. This will benefit our users who prefer media rich content, and who like breaking up reading text with a short video break!
Our YouTube channel zoomed past the 45,000-subscriber milestone in June, which is a 50% increase in subscribers in 12 months – quite a feat when you consider the numbers involved. In the last three months alone, our YouTube channel was watched by 100,000 brand new viewers, many of them attracted by our latest video interview series with Ven. Thupten Ngodup, the medium of the Nechung State Oracle. As we add more and more subtitles in our various languages, we are also seeing more and more visitors from their respective countries. This last quarter saw viewers from Nepal enter our top ten list, and we are also seeing our audience in Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia increasing. Meanwhile, on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, our sharing of articles, videos, and quotes is going equally as well, with good growth and engagement on each of these platforms.
We have also been busy producing new content that we will start to release later this year and into next year. Firstly, we interviewed Ajahn Amaro, a well-known and much-loved Theravada teacher, and the abbot of Amaravati Monastery in the UK. Secondly, we interviewed Geshe Tenzin Namdak, the resident teacher of Jamyang Buddhist Centre in London, and the first westerner to complete the full geshe degree at one of the “Three Great Seats” (the greatest learning centers in Tibet – that is, Sera, Drepung, and Ganden monasteries). Lastly but by no means least, we interviewed Venerable Steve Carlier, an interpreter, translator, and Buddhist teacher based at the Land of Medicine Buddha in California. We are excited to be able to share with you the incredible wisdom of these three wonderful teachers.
Altogether, our translators and editors have prepared 307 new articles. You’ll find all the details 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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