Remaining Work

In March 2007, we went online with the new version of the website of the Berzin Archives. By then, approximately 650 written items and 75 audio ones were published in the English section. This represents about 15% of the present Archives material. Work has begun on about one-third of the remaining written material and two-thirds of the remaining audio files. New written and audio material, however, is continually being added to the Archives from Berzin’s ongoing lectures, writing, and translations.

Of the currently online English articles, approximately 40% has been translated into German, and approximately 3 to 5% has been translated into Chinese, French, Italian, Mongolian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese. Several paid workers and numerous volunteers are engaged in continuing all facets of the work. They are organized into teams for each of the sections.

In order to complete this enormous task, more helpers are needed to:

help with website development and maintainance: please see our urgent needs page
type scanned documents from graphic files (mostly handwritten English) and proofread them
edit: grammatically edit, divide into sections, and add section titles for English material
translate materials from English into the ten other languages in which work has already begun (see above); other languages would be welcomed
edit translations from English into the other languages
glossaries: compile glossaries, with definitions, of Tibetan and English technical terms and of translation terms for them in the various languages
format, upload on the server, and maintain each language section of the website
transcribe MP3 files of lectures in English
slightly edit MP3 files of lectures and, when multilingual, separate the original English or Tibetan teachings from the consecutive translations
audio files: compress and upload them on the server
podcasting: compress, upload, and maintain a Podcasting section for Berzin’s ongoing courses
backup: make hard copies of the finished material for safe preservation

The main material on which work has only barely begun includes:

handwritten notes from one-year courses by Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey and Geshe Sonam Rinchen on the major texts studied for the Geshe degree
handwritten reading notes on approximately a thousand works on Central Asian and Buddhist history

We follow the Buddhist tradition of making the Dharma (the teachings) available for all, free of charge.

Please help to make the materials of the Berzin Archives accessible to the public, free of charge. Completion of the project requires additional workers and ongoing funding. Whatever help you can give, may it be skills or any donation, will be greatly appreciated. Please consider contributing:

Finance Skills

For further information, please contact us at: info@berzinarchives.com

Thank you for your interest in the Berzin Archives!