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Latest Update Recording Now Available: Dharmamitra for Translator Workflows +
Thank you to everyone who joined our July 11 online workshop, “Translation in the Age of AI: Dharmamitra for Translator Workflows.” For those who couldn’t attend live, the full recording is now available, along with Sebastian’s presentation slides.
Lead Speaker: Sebastian Nehrdich, Assistant Professor, Center for Integrated
Japanese Studies, Tohoku University
Moderators: Sára Csáki-Bertók and Sebastian Nehrdich
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We are delighted to announce the launch of the Bodhicitta Project, a new digital initiative from the Tsadra Foundation dedicated to exploring the Buddhist ideal of bodhicitta — the awakened heart-mind of wisdom and…
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The Bodhicitta Conference: Theory and Practice of Wisdom and Compassion in Tibetan Buddhist Traditions Bodhicitta is considered the central point of the Buddha’s thought, the quintessence of the Dharma, and the main practice of…
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The conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel and the adjacent Taragaon Museum in Boudha, Kathmandu. Located a mere five-minute walk from the renowned Boudha Stupa—a UNESCO World Heritage Site—the venue offers…
What We Do
Recent Publications
Recent Translation Projects
The Collected Works of Jé Tsongkhapa
The Collected Works of Jé Tsongkhapa, to be edited by Thupten Jinpa Langri and Donald S. Lopez Jr., will present the complete literary legacy of one of Tibet’s greatest philosophers, meditators, and religious reformers. Based on the authoritative nineteen-volume Kumbum edition, this collection will be translated into twenty-six English volumes by experienced translators.
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The Ḍākinīs’ Great Dharma Treasury
The Ḍākinīs’ Great Dharma Treasury (mkha’ ‘gro’i chos mdzod chen mo) is a 53-volume collection published in 2017. This ambitious project seeks to publish a ten-volume curated set of translations from the only Tibetan anthology dedicated to writings by, about, and for Buddhist women across historical periods, literary genres, and religious traditions.
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Curated Knowledge for Studying Core Buddhist Ideas
Tsadra’s Literacy Projects connect readers to trusted texts, teachings, and research across traditions. Built to support learning, teaching, and long-term inquiry.
Bodhicitta
A Tsadra Foundation Project
ཇི་སྲིད་ནམ་མཁའ་གནས་པ་དང་། །
འགྲོ་བ་ཇི་སྲིད་གནས་གྱུར་པ། །
དེ་སྲིད་བདག་ནི་གནས་གྱུར་ནས། །
འགྲོ་བའི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་སེལ་བར་ཤོག །
“For as long as space endures, and for as long as living beings remain,
until then may I too abide to dispel the misery of the world.”
— Śāntideva, Bodhicaryāvatāra
A resource hub on bodhicitta and Śāntideva’s life and works — hundreds of texts, multimedia, and original bilingual commentaries.
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Buddha-Nature
A Tsadra Foundation Project
རྫོགས་སངས་སྐུ་ནི་འཕྲོ་ཕྱིར་དང་། །
དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད་དབྱེར་མེད་ཕྱིར་དང་། །
རིགས་ཡོད་ཕྱིར་ན་ལུས་ཅན་ཀུན། །
རྟག་ཏུ་སངས་རྒྱས་སྙིང་པོ་ཅན། །
“Since the perfect buddhakāya radiates, since suchness is undifferentiable,
and because of the disposition, all beings always possess the buddha heart.”
— Ratnagotravibhāga (Uttaratantra), I.28
A resource hub curating scripture, scholarship, and multimedia on buddha-nature — the potential for enlightenment inherent in all beings.
Explore Buddha-NatureDharmaCloud
A growing collection of freely available Tibetan Buddhist texts from multiple lineages. Built with publishers and monastic communities to support study across lineages, expand access, and preserve knowledge.
- 800+ books available for free download
- Weekly New titles
- Bilingual shelf with Tibetan-English side by side
- 85K+ readers worldwide
New Books
Tibetan Collections
These websites provide free access to major Buddhist collections in Unicode and PDF formats, together with detailed research information including biographies, cross-references, and metadata.
Damngak Dzö
A digital gateway to the Treasury of Precious Instructions, presenting the complete Damngak Dzö in a searchable and openly accessible format.
Rinchen Terdzö
A digital gateway to the Great Treasury of Rediscovered Teachings, bringing over 70 volumes of Tibetan Buddhist treasures into a searchable, open format.
Dudjom Tersar
A digital gateway to the Dudjom Tersar, the core treasure cycle of the Dudjom lineage, presented in a searchable, open format.
Khyentse Lineage
The Khyentse Lineage site houses the writings and revelations of eminent teachers—from Jigme Lingpa to Dilgo Khyentse and others—in modern Tibetan editions.
People & Programs
Study & Retreat
Contemplative
Advanced Buddhist Studies
Conversations With Contemplatives →
Dharmamitra
In collaboration with the Berkeley MITRA team, Tsadra Foundation supports the development of Dharmamitra — an open platform of AI tools for working with Tibetan, Sanskrit, Pāli, and Classical Chinese. From machine translation and OCR to semantic search and deep research across the Buddhist corpus, every tool is free and open-source, with trusted resources like Steinert’s Tibetan–English dictionary and the Digital Dictionary of Buddhism built in.
Tibetan · Sanskrit · Pāli · Chinese
one platform
open source
Online Courses & Masterclasses with Wisdom Academy
In partnership with Wisdom Publications, Tsadra Foundation produces a growing series of masterclasses and courses — senior translators and scholars, from His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s principal interpreter to the voices of the Padmakara Translation Group, passing on the craft of translating and teaching the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
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Conferences and Audio & Video
Tsadra Foundation regularly hosts online events, in-person workshops, and international conferences that bring together translators, scholars, and practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism.
Conferences
Tsadra Foundation launched a series of conferences and workshops to provide an international forum for sustained dialogue and the sharing of ideas and experiences for translators of Tibetan texts.
Conversations
An ongoing series of recorded interviews and dialogues with practitioners, scholars, and translators on:Buddha-NatureBodhicittaWith Translators
Youtube Channel
Hundreds of recordings: lectures by leading scholars of Buddha-Nature, full conference and translation workshop sessions, conversations with contemplatives, and AI tools for translators.
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