Stories That Inspire

Stories from across the 84000 community—translator profiles, reader stories, artist features, and the people who make this work possible.

Cultural Translation: Setting the Sūtras to Music

Street Art Meets Sacred Text: Artist DALeast on Illustrating the Vimalakīrti Sūtra

Catherine Dalton: A Translator's Journey from Nepal to the Tibetan Buddhist Canon

Catherine Dalton

A Life Devoted to the Dharma

The Technology Behind Translating the Tibetan Buddhist Canon

84000 in 2024: Translation Milestones, Community Growth, and What's Ahead

Inside 84000's Reading Room: Ancient Buddhist Texts in a Digital Age

The Developer of the 84000 Mobile App on His Offering of Wisdom to the World

Distinguished Professor Donald Lopez on the Project's Progress and Promise

A Historic Publication: The Application of Mindfulness of the Sacred Dharma Comes to English for the First Time

How Readers Across the Himalayas Use 84000's Reading Room

The People Driving Progress: Our Editorial Team

Bittersweet: Cangioli Che Announces her Departure from 84000

The 84000 Story: Translating the Tibetan Buddhist Canon Before It's Lost Forever

How Studying Chinese Deepened One Reader's Appreciation of 84000

Gyurme Dorje 1950 - 2020

From a Comic Book to the Buddhist Canon: Ushnisha Ng on Finding Her Life's Work at 84000

From Reading the Torah to Translating the Sūtras: Larry Mermelstein on a Life in Buddhist Translation

From Monkey Mind to Markup: Mike Engle on Technology, Translation, and Working Behind the Scenes at 84000

Problems of Thinking: Tom Tillemans on a Decade as 84000's Editor-in-Chief

Entering the Dharma Through the Buddha's Speech

One of the Few: A Tibetan Woman's Journey into Sūtra Translation

Translators as the Eyes of the Universe: The Sacred Work of Translation

Tulku Yeshi Gyatso Rinpoche

Tribute to Our Translators

Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche

Solving Ancient Riddles: A Translator's Journey into the Ākāśagarbha Sūtra

Christian Bernert