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Alexander Berzin

Foreword

As many readers have expressed interest in the ongoing work and projects of Berzin Archives, I am starting this page as an informal way of keeping people informed, updated, and involved. From time to time, I shall make further entries. With continuing support from our readers and much hard work from our Berzin Archives team, we hope that all these projects will be completed and online in the near future.

Fourth Quarter 2008

6 October 2008

New English eBooks and articles completed and sent for formatting and uploading:

  • A Commentary on Attitude-Training Like the Rays of the Sun – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama (6 parts)

  • Seven-Point Attitude-Training – Namkapel edition

  • Interview for the Kalmyk Mandala Magazine Concerning Buddhist Translation

Edited English transcripts that arrived and need final editing:

  • Sangha

English transcript sent for editing:

  • Visualization

Transcribed English audio files that arrived and will need editing:

  • Recognizing the Five Types of Deep Awareness (part 3)

English audio files sent for transcribing:

  • Overview of Tantra (7 parts)

New German translations online:

  • Buddhism and Science

Revised German translations online:

  • Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship (chapter 7)

Completed Russian translations that arrived and were sent for editing:

  • Developing Balanced Sensitivity (chapter 16)

Completed and edited Portuguese translations that arrived:

  • Issues in Buddhist Sexual Ethics

Completed and edited Chinese translations that arrived:

  • A Buddhist View of Islam

  • The Relation between Buddhism and Sufism: Response to Majid Tehranian

  • Holy Wars in Buddhism and Islam: The Myth of Shambhala (abridged version)

  • The Kalachakra Presentation of the Prophets of the Non-Indic Invaders (abridged analysis)

  • The Kalachakra Presentation of the Prophets of the Non-Indic Invaders (summary)

Articles sent for Chinese translation:

  • The Spread of Buddhism in Asia

  • Introductory History of the Five Tibetan Traditions of Buddhism and Bon

  • Indian Society and Thought before and at the Time of Buddha

  • A Brief History of Buddhism in India before the Thirteenth-Century Invasions

  • Establishment of the Bhikshuni Order in India

  • History of the Theravada Ordination Lineages

  • History of the Mulasarvastivada Ordination Lineage in Tibet

  • Revival of the Monk Ordination Lineage in Tenth-Century Tibet

  • The Origin of the Yellow Hat Worn by Monks in the Gelug Tradition

  • The Life of Shakyamuni Buddha

  • Biography of Nagarjuna

  • Short Biography of Tsongkhapa

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