By Alexander Berzin | Author and Executive Director of Berzin Archives
With your kind ongoing support, we have continued to expand the Berzin Archives web site (www.berzinarchives.com). In these last three months, we have added online 165 new written, audio or video items and furthered hundreds of more files along the way on the multi-step process to completion. You can find all the statistics and details of what we have accomplished in the attached document.
At the end of January, we implemented the new option for downloading Kindle and EPUB versions for all our articles and transcripts other than for those available in published book form. Now it is even more convenient to read the material on the web site whenever and wherever you wish.
Our upcoming Tibetan and Mongolian sections have gotten a step closer to their coming online. We have successfully located and hired part-time editors for both of them. Many centuries ago, devoted masters translated the Buddhist literature from Sanskrit to classical Tibetan and then on to classical Mongolian. But, nowadays, most of the younger generation of Tibetans and Mongolians cannot read these classical languages. Their access to the wisdom of their own cultures is therefore quite limited. It is very exciting, then, to help the great masters communicate their wisdom to this younger generation through modern media in their colloquial languages.
The scope of our project, however, is universal. We now have over a hundred people working around the world on our eighteen European and Asian language sections and in our audio/video and technical divisions. Translations, transcripts, and audio and video files in various stages of preparation come in and go out to them each day. With such a large and constant daily workflow, keeping clear up-to-date records is essential. To help with this daunting task, we have hired an administrative assistant. With increased efficiency, we hope to make even more of the “Wisdom of Tibet Available to All.”
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