Many of Sangharakshita’s core books and some books by his closer disciples and members of Triratna have been translated into a range of languages.
The main rituals and ceremonies used in the Triratna Buddhist Community are translated into many languages, mainly where there is some form of Triratna activity, but you will also find some languages where there’s no Triratna activity at present. See below for various language-based groups, and do join any that you are interested in. The aim is to translate these ritual texts into all languages, to begin with: The Dedication Ceremony, The Refuges and Five Precepts, The Threefold Puja.
If you want further information on a language or Triratna’s presence in a specific country, there might be a link in the group to the main website in each country. You can also write to the email below or search this site.
Here are the languages (bold and underlined) where there are some translated texts. Just click on the underlined language to read more. Some languages have audio recordings with the ritual texts being read or chanted by native speakers – please let us know if you’d like to contribute to that.
Afrikaans | Albanian | Amharic | Arabic | Aramaic | Armenian | Balinese | Bantu | Basque | Belarusan | Bengali | Berber | Breton | Bulgarian | Cantonese | Catalan | Chechen | Cherokee | Cheyenne | Chinese | Coptic | Cree | Creole | Croatian | Czech | Danish | Dutch | Egyptian | Eskimo | Esperanto | Estonian | Farsi | Finnish | Flemish | French | Gaelic | German | Greek | Hawaiian | Hausa | Hebrew | Hindi | Hungarian | Icelandic | Indonesian | Irish | Italian | Japanese | Kannada | Khmer | Klingon | Konkani | Korean | Kurdish | Lao | Lakhota | Latin | Latvian | Lithuanian | Macedonian | Malay | Malayalam | Maltese | Manchu | Mandinka | Manx | Maori | Marathi | Mohawk | Mongolian | Myanmar | Navajo | Nepalese | Norwegian | Oriya | Pali | Pidgin | Polish | Portuguese | Punjabi | Quechua | Quenya | Rasta | Romanian | Romany | Russian | Samoan | Sanskrit | Serbian | Sign Language | Sinhalese | Slovak | Slovene | Sogdian | Somali | Sorbian | Spanish | Swabian | Swahili | Swedish | Tagalog | Taiwanese | Tahitian | Tamil | Telugu | Thai | Tibetan | Tongan | Turkish | Ukrainian | Urdu | Uyghur | Uzbek | Vietnamese | Walloon | Welsh | Wolof | Xhosa | Yoruba | Zulu
Future Translation Projects
Local sanghas or individuals may decide to include other materials on their pages, such as introductions to the mindfulness of breathing and metta-bhavana meditations, basic Buddhism and other material.
Translation projects in general have received more support and attention since when a group of European Chairs in 2011 spearheaded a Translation Fund as part of the European Chairs Assembly (ECA) and its Development Fund (This was before FutureDharma). A few years ago it changed into the International Triratna Translations Board (ITTB).
You can read more about The vital importance and challenge of translating the Dharma here (two articles by Viryabodhi).
The MANAGEMENT of these pages.
The Coordinator of the ITTB (at present, Viryabodhi) look after and update these pages and we’d like to gratefully acknowledge the support we get from FutureDharma and the ECA.
QUESTIONS, COMMENTS and SUGGESTIONS
Write to: int.triratna.translations.board@gmail.com
The management of these pages are part-funded by FutureDharma and the European Chairs Assembly (ECA).