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==== Latest News ====
 
==== Latest News ====
 
[[Image:Tseringma_t.jpg|frame|left|Page for the Five Sisters of Long Life, by Sherab Drime]]
 
[[Image:Tseringma_t.jpg|frame|left|Page for the Five Sisters of Long Life, by Sherab Drime]]
*[[Five Sisters of Long Life]]   
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*'''[[Five Sisters of Long Life]]'''  
 
*The Rangjung Yeshe dictionary -- including Jim Valby, Ives Waldo, Richard Barron, etc., has just been uploaded into a parallel test site. You can try out a search at:<br>
 
*The Rangjung Yeshe dictionary -- including Jim Valby, Ives Waldo, Richard Barron, etc., has just been uploaded into a parallel test site. You can try out a search at:<br>
 
[http://rywikitest.tsadra.org/ Testing the DharmaDictionary]
 
[http://rywikitest.tsadra.org/ Testing the DharmaDictionary]
 
==== Mission & aims ====
 
This website is designed to be:
 
* Full of '''resources for translators'''
 
* A '''dictionary of current usage''' for translated terms and ideas
 
* An "storehouse" of data on Tibetan Buddhism
 
* '''Dynamic''' and '''growing''' web of ideas & knowledge
 
* As '''non-sectarian''' and '''open-minded''' as possible
 
* '''Free''' to be used by everyone
 
  
 
==== Invitation  ====
 
==== Invitation  ====

Revision as of 06:11, 23 December 2005

DharmaDictionary.net: A dictionary of current usage, that grows as we use it, and a dynamic Dharmapedia, with non-sectarian free resources for a "circle of lotsawas" involved in the translation of Buddhism from Tibetan to English

LINEAGES * BUDDHIST MASTERS * LITERATURE * TRANSLATORS AND TRANSLATIONS * RESOURCES

The great translator Vairotsana


Latest News[edit]

Page for the Five Sisters of Long Life, by Sherab Drime
  • Five Sisters of Long Life
  • The Rangjung Yeshe dictionary -- including Jim Valby, Ives Waldo, Richard Barron, etc., has just been uploaded into a parallel test site. You can try out a search at:

Testing the DharmaDictionary

Invitation[edit]

Contents[edit]

Note to Editors and Contributors[edit]

  • Instructions for making & editing entries
  • As this online dictionary of current usage comes up-and-running, there will be plenty of opportunity to add and edit. Currently you can just create your own account. Editing access requires user id and password first time you log in.
  • You're welcome to begin with your personal teacher[s], which you can find here: Buddhist teachers of our times, or here, if you want to add a name: Tibetan Buddhist Teachers
  • or begin with some of the pages listed on Wanted Pages. For the time being, we focus on the English-based entries, so don't touch the Wylie entries, yet.