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Lotsawa House @lotsawahouse.org · 8d

🙏🏼 Thank you to all our patrons and other donors, whose generosity enables us to continue translating important, interesting and inspiring texts and making them available 'on the House'.

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Lotsawa House @lotsawahouse.org · 8d

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Lotsawa House @lotsawahouse.org · 8d

❝ And added 27 pages of quotations from the Words of the Buddha, Asaṅga/Maitreyanātha, Atiśa Dīpaṃkara, Bhāviveka, Candragomin, Candrakīrti, Dharmakīrti, Garab Dorje, Jñānagarbha, Kamalaśīla, Milarepa, Nāgārjuna, Ngok Loden Sherab, Padmasambhava, Sakya Paṇḍita, Śāntarakṣita, Saraha, and Vasubandhu.

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Lotsawa House @lotsawahouse.org · 8d

🎤 We published interviews with Erik Pema Kunsang, Lama Chökyi Nyima, Peter Alan Roberts and Sangye Khandro.

✍🏻 We also added a new introductions to the Abecedarian and Thirteen Major Texts topics.

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Lotsawa House @lotsawahouse.org · 8d

📚 We published 32 translations in September, incl. texts by Longchen Rabjam, Jetsün Mingyur Paldrön, Jigme Lingpa, Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, the Third Dodrupchen, Jigme Tenpe Nyima, the Fifteenth Karmapa, Khakhyap Dorje, Khenchen Ngawang Palzang, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, and Khenpo Gangshar.

Detail from a painting by Drugu Choegyal Rinpoche overlaid with this month's text totals

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Lotsawa House @lotsawahouse.org · 12d

A revised and updated Compendium of Quotations, featuring popular quotations from the Words of the Buddha and many great Indian and Tibetan masters:

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(This is a work in progress. Look out for more updates as we add more quotations in the coming weeks.)

A Compendium of Quotations

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Lotsawa House @lotsawahouse.org · 12d

Interviews with four pioneering translators—Erik Pema Kunsang, Lama Chökyi Nyima, Peter Alan Roberts and Sangye Khandro—that were conducted between 2003 and 2004:

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Interviews

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Lotsawa House @lotsawahouse.org · 12d

TODAY is our 21st anniversary! 🎉

To mark this occasion, we are transferring some of the resources that were previously hosted on our former sister site, Lotsāwa School.

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Lotsawa House @lotsawahouse.org · Sep 2

🔔 NEW TRANSLATION
The Sun Illuminating the Wisdom of Empty Awareness
Clarifications on the Hidden Meaning of “The Song of the Feast”
by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910–1991)

🔗 www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-mast...

Translated by Samye Translations (Stefan Mang & Lowell Cook)

Goddesses dancing and playing instruments in a tsok feast celebration

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Lotsawa House @lotsawahouse.org · Aug 31

🙏🏼 Thank you to all our patrons and other donors, whose generosity enables us to continue translating important, interesting and inspiring texts and making them available 'on the House'.

Lotsawa House @lotsawahouse.org · Aug 31

✍🏻 We also added a new introduction to Guru Padmasambhava topic.

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Lotsawa House @lotsawahouse.org · Aug 31

📚 We published 41 translations in August, incl. texts by Longchenpa, Guru Tashi, Ju Mipham, Khenpo Ngaga, 2nd Penor, Rigdzin Palchen Düpa, Jokyab Pema Trinlé Nyingpo, Dudjom Rinpoche, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Tulku Theglo, Alak Zenkar, Khenmo Dawa Drolma & Shechen Monastery Organisation Committee.

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Lotsawa House @lotsawahouse.org · Aug 18

NEW TRANSLATION
An Explanation of "The Eight Auspicious Ones"
by Mipham Rinpoche (1846–1912)

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Mipham sets out the benefits of invoking the 8 buddhas, 8 male and female bodhisattvas, and 8 guardians of the world.

👨🏼‍💻 Translated & introduced by Lowell Cook

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Lotsawa House @lotsawahouse.org · Jul 31

🙏🏼 Thank you to all our patrons and other donors, whose generosity enables us to continue translating important, interesting and inspiring texts and making them available 'on the House'.

Lotsawa House @lotsawahouse.org · Jul 31

🪷 Please consider supporting us with as little as $2 (less than the price of a cup of coffee) on Patreon to receive a monthly newsletter detailing all new additions (only some of which are announced on social media).

🔗 www.patreon.com/LotsawaHouse

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creating translations of Tibetan Buddhist texts

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Lotsawa House @lotsawahouse.org · Jul 31

✍🏻 In addition, we added new introductions to the following topics: Siṃhamukhā, Kurukullā, Yangdak Heruka, Vajravidāraṇa, Vajrakīlaya, Eight Vidyādharas, and Kagyé.

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Lotsawa House @lotsawahouse.org · Jul 31

📚 We published 40 new translations on the site in July. This included texts by Mañjuśrīkīrti, Atiśa (982–1054), Longchenpa (1308–1364), Jigme Losal Özer, Jamgön Mipham (1846–1912), Sera Khandro (1892–1940), Pema Kunzang Rangdrol (1916–1984), Khenmo Dawa Drolma (b. 20th C.) & Kelsang Lhamo (b. 1973).

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Lotsawa House @lotsawahouse.org · Jul 28

NEW TRANSLATION: An Illuminating Ornament of Brilliant Sunlight: A Catalogue of the Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse
by Jigme Losal Özer

This catalogue of the treasures of the Longchen Nyingtik was written in 1802 at the Lhundrup Teng temple in Derge.

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Part of a thangka depicting the main deities of Longchen Nyingtik

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Lotsawa House @lotsawahouse.org · Jul 28

“At the end of seven weeks—seven sets of seven days,
The doors to auspiciousness flung open,
And, at the urging of Brahmā and Indra, you turned the Dharma Wheel—
Kinsman of the Sun, may your enlightened speech sustain us!”

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Twelve Deeds Inscriptions

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Lotsawa House @lotsawahouse.org · Jul 28

TODAY (28 July 2025) we celebrate Chökhor Düchen, the festival of Buddha Śākyamuni's first turning of the Wheel of Dharma ☸️.

Buddha Shakyamuni giving his first teaching

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84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha @translate84000.bsky.social · Jul 20

#RealBuddhaQuotes May your heart remain light and your mind free, filled with compassion for all. May you be victorious in wisdom and kindness, and may your peace inspire others.

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Lotsawa House @lotsawahouse.org · Jul 11

NEW TRANSLATION: A Prayer to the Supreme Deities Invoking their Wisdom Minds by Sera Khandro Kunzang Dekyong Wangmo (1892–1940)

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Tara image with title of new translation

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Lotsawa House @lotsawahouse.org · Jul 6

Our library also includes supplications for His Holiness's long life by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö, Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche, Trulshik Rinpoche, Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok, & Sakya Trichen, plus the 4-line prayer (𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘪 𝘳𝘢𝘸é...) adapted from a verse by Polhané Sonam Tobgyé.

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Lotsawa House @lotsawahouse.org · Jul 6

This verse is taken from a newly translated text, which Pema Kunzang Rangdrol (1916–1984) composed as his final testament, one of ten such prayers on the site.

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Lotsawa House @lotsawahouse.org · Jul 6

"Under the cooling shade of his white parasol, noble compassion,
This protector of the teachings and beings shelters all from distress.
I pray that his vajra form may remain upon the fearless lion’s throne,
Forever secure in the essence of the conqueror, deity of long life."

— Pema Kunzang Rangdrol

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