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The dates for his visit to New Zealand have also been adjusted and the events in Tasmania will now be held on Tuesday 8th December.
His Holiness is very pleased to now be able to offer the two days of Teaching on Nagarjuna's text. This is wonderful news for us here in Australia, where we have had the blessing of being able to receive extraordinary Teachings from His Holiness three years running now. This news comes at a time when many of the world's leading Tibetan-English translators are gathering in the tiny Indian village of Bir in northern India, to map the future of Dharma translation for generations to come. Their aim - to make Buddha's Teachings accessible to millions in the west. On their ambitious agenda are topics like initiating the full translation of the entire Buddhist canon, including the 108-volume Kangyur - the Buddha's direct teachings that include many sutras never before translated into English. Translating those teachings from Sanskrit to Tibetan over 1,000 years ago took nearly 100 years under Tibetan royal patronage. According to the conference chair, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche: "I have arrived at the conviction that we cannot have a goal to make ‘Tibetan Buddhism' a Western institution. For the Buddha's teachings to truly thrive in our cultures and take root in our hearts, we must have a genuine Western Buddhism. For this genuine tradition to flourish and become fully integrated in the West, we must, in my view, have the words of the Buddha in English. A comprehensive English compilation of the Buddha's words will serve as an authoritative bedrock for a living tradition." Many blessings until next time.
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