Make the Ageless Wisdom of Tibet Available to All

As the final months of the year drew to a close, we celebrated two significant milestones: the 24th anniversary of our online presence—beginning with the launch of the Berzin Archives website—and the achievement of surpassing 17,000 articles published across 37 language sections on our current Study Buddhism platform, with more than 2,100 of them in English. During this three-month period, we welcomed 564,000 unique visitors, who read more than 940,000 articles. Our readers were most engaged with “What Is Buddhism” (English and Russian), “Praises to the Twenty-one Taras” (Tibetan), “The Golden Light Sutra” (Russian), “Ten Basic Buddhist Beliefs” (English), and “The 32 Major Marks of a Buddha’s Physical Body” (English). English, Russian, German, Japanese, and Spanish were the most widely read languages, with the majority of users coming from the United States, Russia, Germany, India, and Italy.

Our presence on social media continues to grow steadily. We released 18 new videos on YouTube, garnering 150,000 views. Instagram saw especially strong growth, with 240,000 views and an 18% increase in followers, adding 2,330 new members to our community. New videos from Geshe Kelsang Wangmo and Geshe Tenzin Zopa performed particularly well. We also managed to fit in several high-profile video interviews in different locations in Japan and Thailand.

A major highlight of the quarter was the publication of The Relation between Wholes and Parts: Gelug Presentation, alongside extensive copyediting and republishing of key materials across various topics such as the Four Noble Truths, Kalachakra practice, and Tsongkhapa’s unique Prasangika view. We also completed AI transcription and editing of 87 classes on Buddhist logic and 30 additional teachings on Tsongkhapa’s Lam-rim chen-mo (the Vipashyana section) and In Praise of Dependent Arising. Furthermore, 282 translations into 17 languages were completed, with Italian, Spanish, Gujarati, Russian, and Ukrainian receiving the highest number of newly translated articles.

Here are some of our major accomplishments from September through November 2025:

Content & Translations

• Composed and published The Relation between Wholes and Parts: Gelug Presentation
• Copyedited and replaced online versions of:
• Refuting the False Self Experiencing the Four Noble Truths (10 parts)
• Overview of “Four Hundred Verse Treatise” (4 parts)
• Kalachakra: The Four Creative Drops (7 parts)
• Emptiness and Dependent Arising (3 parts)
• Explanation of Tsongkhapa’s Unique View of Prasangika (7 parts)
• Copyedited and published transcripts of weekend courses by Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche I:
• Commentary on “Kalachakra Six-Session Guru-Yoga” (6 parts)
• Overview of “The Three Essential Moments”
• Explanation of Selected Bodhisattva and Tantric Vows
• Copyedited and published the English translation from Tibetan of The Steps of Visualization for “The Three Essential Moments” by the Second Dalai Lama
• Copyedited and published transcripts of:
• 27 classes from Dr. Berzin’s course on Nagarjuna’s Letter to a Friend
• 10 classes from Dr. Berzin’s course on the Shamatha and Vipashyana sections of Tsongkhapa’s Lam-rim chen-mo (Grand Presentation of the Graded Stages of the Path)
• Conducted AI transcription and editing of:
• 87 classes on Buddhist logic and debate by Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche II, Gen Tenzin Gurmyi, and Atisha Mathur at the Serkong Institute for Buddhist Studies
• 22 lectures on the Vipashyana section of Tsongkhapa’s Lam-rim chen-mo and 8 lectures on Tsongkhapa’s In Praise of Dependent Arising by Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche II including Q&A and review sessions with Dr. Berzin
• Translated from Tibetan into English and conducted AI editing of:
• 8 lectures by Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche II on Chandrakirti’s Clear Words

• Conducted AI translation and editing from Tibetan to English of:
  • 15 additional lectures by Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche II on Clear Words
• Completed and published 282 article translations from Engish into 17 of our other 36 languages, including:
• Italian (58)
• Spanish (41)
• Gujarati (37)
• Russian (24)
• Ukrainian (20)
• Continued composition of an extensive commentary on The Gross and Subtle Varieties of the Two Types of Dependent Arising in Purchog Ngawang Jampa’s Commentary on “In Praise of Dependent Arising”

Multimedia & Social Media

• Conducted four video interviews with distinguished Buddhist teachers:
• Professor Musashi Tachikawa, renowned scholar and former Director of the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University, Japan
• Reverend Isobe Taiseki, Rinzai Zen teacher at Taikoan, part of the Tofukuji Temple in Kyoto
• Reverend Shoukei Matsumoto, best-selling author and Jodo Shinshu teacher at Honen-in Temple, Kyoto
• Phra Pandit Bhikkhu, British-born Theravada monk and founder of the Little Bangkok Sangha in Thailand
• Edited and released nine videos from our interview with Geshe Kelsang Wangmo:
• Published the full interview on YouTube with a dedicated playlist, individual thumbnails, video descriptions, teasers, and English subtitles
• Added subtitles in 36 other languages
• Created:
• 9 Instagram-ready clips
• 12 Facebook-ready clips
• 12 X-ready clips
• 9 YouTube Shorts (60-second mini-clips)
• Edited and released seven videos from our interview with Geshe Tenzin Zopa:
• Published the full interview on YouTube with a dedicated playlist, individual thumbnails, video descriptions, teasers, and English subtitles
• Added subtitles in 36 other languages
• Created:
• 7 Instagram-ready clips
• 12 Facebook-ready clips
• 12 X-ready clips
• 7 YouTube Shorts (60-second mini-clips)
• Prepared 12 visual quotes from video interviews and other sources for Facebook, Instagram, and X
• Produced and uploaded 12 video clips optimized for:
• Facebook: 37-language subtitles
• X: Embedded English subtitles
• Instagram: 9:16 vertical format with embedded English subtitles
• Created 12 article-based posts introducing key content to social audiences
• Designed and dispatched five newsletters to over 9,700 Mailchimp subscribers

Technical Improvements

Dark Mode

• Implemented dark mode support based on browser or system preferences
• Introduced dark-mode.scss and integrated into site-wide styles

About Section Updates

• Updated SoundCloud and YouTube follower counts
• Displayed "Progress Reports" and "Newsletters" only in English locale
• Displayed "Authors & Experts" link only in English locale
• Added Gujarati translations for About and Donations pages

Audio Courses

• Added redirects for renamed Audio Course URLs (English and Spanish)
• Ensured URL redirects from ‘parte’ to ‘seccion’ for Spanish course pages
• Adjusted conditional rendering for toggle controls
• Corrected titles, URLs, and reorganized articles
• Embedded SoundCloud playlists into new and reorganized articles

Slug/URL Management

• Improved slug generator logic
• Regenerated and restored broken slugs/URLs
• Ensured slugs only generate when blank to prevent unwanted changes

Glossary

• Disabled caching for glossary
• Enabled glossary support for Chinese (Simplified and Traditional)
• Fixed glossary bugs (term filtering, display logic)

Reports & Analytics

• Updated base reports layout
• Refactored analytics data structure and fixed user-agent tracking bug
• Launched a new Languages Report:
• Includes article counts, total views, and views per article
• Sorted by efficiency (views per article), rounded to two decimal places

New CMS

• Released new content management system at /cms, replacing /adm
• Core CMS features:
• Add/Edit/Delete content
• Upload and remove images
• Search, sort, and paginate content
• Improved form validations and mobile responsiveness
• Full language support in admin UI
• Secure login and access controls
• Enhanced admin views and workflows:
• Added dynamic editing for glossary, progress reports, newsletters, and more
• Improved sortable tables, input fields for decimals, integers, and booleans
• Enabled alternate language fields and locale-sensitive admin content
• Added retained image support for CMS form redisplays
• Improved styling and layout of all admin views
• Introduced helper methods to standardize CMS behavior across models

Other Improvements

• Added new YouTube videos to homepage rotation
• Updated friendly_id and friendly_id-globalize gems for compatibility
• Updated database dump script and repositioned dotenv-rails for environment config
• Researched and tested AI tools for potential future integration
• Began evaluating new server deployment tools

Thank You for Your Support

None of this progress would be possible without your steadfast support. Your generosity allows us to continue expanding access to authentic Buddhist teachings for students, scholars, and practitioners around the world. With your help, we remain dedicated to our mission to “Make the Ageless Wisdom of Tibet Available to All.”

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