Translation
A translator of Tibetan texts tests his skill against AI chatbots.
IdeasMagazine | Teachings, What's in a Word?
What’s in a Word: Sankhāra
Cutting to the karmic roots of “formation”
IdeasMagazine | Teachings, What's in a Word?
What’s in a Word?: Anicca
A Pali scholar discusses its meaning.
Redefining Tibetan Literature
A new interdisciplinary journal transcends genre studies and attempts to build bridges between Tibetan and Western academics.
Self in Translation
Polly Barton’s Fifty Sounds blows open ideas of a stable self and the supposed impediments of language.
The Border States of Compassion
Akil Kumarasamy’s debut novel asks how we can truly understand another’s pain—and at what cost.
Translating Bodhi
A Theravada monk argues that “awakening” is the enlightened choice
TeachingsMagazine | Practice, Teachings
Wording the Dharma
Choose a word. Now get to work.
The Private Side of Thomas Cleary
The translator saw himself as a spy sneaking ideas across the mind’s borders
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