Buddhist Text Translation Society

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The Buddhist Text Translation Society (BTTS) is an organization based in Ukiah , founded in 1970 by Hsuan Hua in the US state of California , with the aim of translating texts of Chinese Buddhism into Western languages ​​and thus to the public to make accessible.

The various translation projects of BTTS are carried out as part of a peer review and are created with the participation of several hundred volunteers.

Over the years, more than a hundred works have been translated into seven different languages. Underneath

  • The Heart of Prajna Paramita Sutra: With "Verses Without a Stand" and Prose Commentary , by Hsuan Hua, 2002, ISBN 978-0881394849
  • Shastra on the Door to Understanding the Hundred Dharmas , by Bodhisattva Vasubandhu, Hsuan Hua, 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.buddhisttexts.org/history.html