Chödung Karmo Translation Group

Chödung Karmo Translation Group

The Chödung Karmo (“White Dharma Conch”) Translation Group was founded in 2010 at the International Buddhist Academy in Kathmandu/Nepal to help fulfill the late Khenchen Appey Rinpoche’s vision for the preservation and transmission of the Buddha Dharma.

Khenchen Appey Rinpoche (1927-2010), the founder of the International Buddhist Academy (IBA), was a teacher of teachers renowned for his mastery of both sutra and tantra.His vision and compassion inspired us to form the Chödung Karmo Translation Group in order to make Dharma more accessible to the world. Rinpoche selected over 20 essential Tibetan treatises for us to translate into English and other languages.

The authors of those texts include some of the greatest luminaries of Tibet such as Sakya Pandita, Rongtön Sheja Kunrig and Gorampa Sönam Senge. We are excited that this immense wealth of Buddhist philosophy and practice from old Tibet will soon be available to a worldwide modern audience. These texts cover most fields of traditional Buddhist scholarship (listed below) as well as practice texts immediately accessible to a general audience.

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Tantra - Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism. Skt तन्त्र  Tib རྒྱུད།  Ch 密宗  

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Karuṇā - The profound wish for all sentient beings to be free from suffering and the causes of suffering. It is a core virtue in Buddhism and, in the Mahāyāna tradition, develops into 'great compassion' (mahākaruṇā), the driving force behind the pursuit of enlightenment for the benefit of others. Skt करुणा  Tib ཐུགས་རྗེ་  Ch 悲  

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Sakya - The Sakya tradition developed in the eleventh century in the Khön family of Tsang, which maintained an imperial-era lineage of Vajrakīla and which adopted a new teaching from India known as Lamdre. Tib ས་སྐྱ་  

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