Post by Erik Pema Kunsang on Sept 17, 2004 9:44:59 GMT -5
Dear Friends,
We are hoping you will join us in this new endeavor:
Diamond Mountain Buddhist University is a new project just starting up in southeast Arizona in the United States and founded by Geshe Michael Roach, to teach dharma classes for free to anyone who wants to come.
In conjunction with the 5-week semesters, Geshe Michael will be offering
an online Tibetan translators' course, which can be accessed throughout
the world via the internet. He wants to bring together Tibetan translators
from all over the world to work on a translation together in order arrive at
a standard for translation into different languages, and also to compile
contextual hypertexted Tibetan dictionaries for the various languages.
We would be honored if you would like to participate, even occasionally,
in this project. Geshe Michael would like as many translators and
native speakers as possible to participate, as well as everyone who
is interested in learning to translate Tibetan.
This program will be interactive and real-time (that is you will be able to ask questions and give suggestions), and he wants as many people as possible to participate. We are working on setting up the technical details of this project, and I am currently setting up an email list of Tibetan translators and scholars who would like to participate in this program. Please email me (elly@dmes.org) if you would like to participate or if you have any suggestions for people to contact about participating.
We will be covering approximately one page per class, and we are hoping that the participants will be able to translate almost instantly, and to post the current translations, in every possible language, by the next week. We have translators for Spanish, Russian, French, Chinese, German, Mongolian, and Hebrew, and we would like to include other languages if possible. Please contact me also if you know any others who could join us, preferably native speakers.
The first text we will be translating is "An Illumination of the True Thought of the Middle Way" (dBu-ma dgongs-pa rab-gsal), which is a commentary on Master Chankrakirti's "Madhyamakavatara", itself a commentary on Arya Nagarjuna's "Mulaprajna." Geshe la describes this text as "the most important text on emptiness ever written by Je Tsongkapa." Geshe la himself spent eight years going over this text with Geshe Thubten Rinchen, the same lama who taught a group of us at Sera Mey in 1999.
Thank you for any help or suggestions you can give us with this project. If we can make it work, it will greatly enhance the amount and quality of material that is translated from Tibetan, and will make the precious dharma texts increasingly available to people all over the world.
Thank you very much,
Elly van der Pas
Diamond Mountain
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Instructor
Geshe Michael Roach is the founder of the Asian Classics Institute, author of The Diamond Cutter, and the first American geshe. For more information about Geshe Michael, please visit: www.diamondmtn.org/roots.
Schedule
Days & times: Mondays and Fridays, 5:30-7:30pm Arizona time
Dates: September 20-October 22
Location: Diamond Mountain
We are hoping you will join us in this new endeavor:
Diamond Mountain Buddhist University is a new project just starting up in southeast Arizona in the United States and founded by Geshe Michael Roach, to teach dharma classes for free to anyone who wants to come.
In conjunction with the 5-week semesters, Geshe Michael will be offering
an online Tibetan translators' course, which can be accessed throughout
the world via the internet. He wants to bring together Tibetan translators
from all over the world to work on a translation together in order arrive at
a standard for translation into different languages, and also to compile
contextual hypertexted Tibetan dictionaries for the various languages.
We would be honored if you would like to participate, even occasionally,
in this project. Geshe Michael would like as many translators and
native speakers as possible to participate, as well as everyone who
is interested in learning to translate Tibetan.
This program will be interactive and real-time (that is you will be able to ask questions and give suggestions), and he wants as many people as possible to participate. We are working on setting up the technical details of this project, and I am currently setting up an email list of Tibetan translators and scholars who would like to participate in this program. Please email me (elly@dmes.org) if you would like to participate or if you have any suggestions for people to contact about participating.
We will be covering approximately one page per class, and we are hoping that the participants will be able to translate almost instantly, and to post the current translations, in every possible language, by the next week. We have translators for Spanish, Russian, French, Chinese, German, Mongolian, and Hebrew, and we would like to include other languages if possible. Please contact me also if you know any others who could join us, preferably native speakers.
The first text we will be translating is "An Illumination of the True Thought of the Middle Way" (dBu-ma dgongs-pa rab-gsal), which is a commentary on Master Chankrakirti's "Madhyamakavatara", itself a commentary on Arya Nagarjuna's "Mulaprajna." Geshe la describes this text as "the most important text on emptiness ever written by Je Tsongkapa." Geshe la himself spent eight years going over this text with Geshe Thubten Rinchen, the same lama who taught a group of us at Sera Mey in 1999.
Thank you for any help or suggestions you can give us with this project. If we can make it work, it will greatly enhance the amount and quality of material that is translated from Tibetan, and will make the precious dharma texts increasingly available to people all over the world.
Thank you very much,
Elly van der Pas
Diamond Mountain
-------
Instructor
Geshe Michael Roach is the founder of the Asian Classics Institute, author of The Diamond Cutter, and the first American geshe. For more information about Geshe Michael, please visit: www.diamondmtn.org/roots.
Schedule
Days & times: Mondays and Fridays, 5:30-7:30pm Arizona time
Dates: September 20-October 22
Location: Diamond Mountain
