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Category: Weekly Journal

Week 1 Update: EĀ Ch. 1 Released!

January 8, 2023January 9, 2023 ~ Charles Patton ~ Leave a comment

Hello, Everyone! Welcome to a New Year. 2023 is the Year of the Water Rabbit in East Asia, which is good, I suppose. Good-natured, adaptable, intelligent people — yes, the world needs more of them to take the wheel. Good-natured people, especially. The past two months have been a test period for a new translation … Continue reading Week 1 Update: EĀ Ch. 1 Released!

The Ekôttarika Āgama Project Begins

October 30, 2022 ~ Charles Patton ~ 2 Comments

Tomorrow will be the official start of the Ekôttarika Āgama translation project at Dharma Pearls. This project is expected to take approximately two years to complete a well edited release, though actual time is dependent at how difficult the material turns out to be. I will be shooting for a process that translates around five … Continue reading The Ekôttarika Āgama Project Begins

Heat Waves, Data Entry, and Meta-Editing

September 4, 2022 ~ Charles Patton ~ 1 Comment

This summer has been quite an experience for much of the world. Floods, droughts, and a creeping suspicion turned sudden realization: The World is changing, and humans are but bits of flotsam when the raging currents of that change arrive. Yes, it's true: We aren't as collectively invulnerable and omnipotent as we imagined a couple … Continue reading Heat Waves, Data Entry, and Meta-Editing

February Update (More Dīrgha Āgama Sutras)

March 1, 2021 ~ Charles Patton ~ Leave a comment

Last month, I added three new Dīrgha Āgama translations, a couple sutras from the Saṃyukta Āgama, and I also began work on the Chinese Dharmapāda, posting a couple commentary stories found in T211 for the first chapter. A quick list of the additions can be found on the What’s New page at Dharma Pearls. DĀ 11 Increasing One … Continue reading February Update (More Dīrgha Āgama Sutras)

2021 Update: Switching Gears to the Dīrgha Āgama

February 1, 2021February 1, 2021 ~ Charles Patton ~ Leave a comment

Ah, finally, I have a new update for Dharma Pearls. The past month and a half has been … well … eventful here in the US, to say the least. However, the translation project continues. I’ve changed gears a bit, which is also part of why there’s been only the sound of crickets for the … Continue reading 2021 Update: Switching Gears to the Dīrgha Āgama

New Dharma Pearls Website Is Live

October 12, 2019October 12, 2019 ~ Charles Patton ~ 1 Comment

A quick note for those checking in for updates on my translation projects: I've created a website at Github Pages to serve as the central repository for my English translations. Going forwards, the translations that have been published here at WordPress will be moved over to the new website and removed from the blog. However, … Continue reading New Dharma Pearls Website Is Live

Weekly Update: Agamas and Dharmapadas

April 23, 2019April 26, 2019 ~ Charles Patton ~ Leave a comment

It's been over a month since my last update on my translation work. I began the year with a general idea of updating my previous translations that needed polishing and correction, and I republished a much improved edition of Kumarajiva's Diamond Sutra in February. In March things changed somewhat when I rediscovered some of my … Continue reading Weekly Update: Agamas and Dharmapadas

Progress Report

January 9, 2019April 26, 2019 ~ Charles Patton ~ Leave a comment

Things have been busy as I juggle a number of different projects in addition to my translation work. I'm still working on a re-release of Kumārajīva's Diamond Sutra in English, having taken a break from it to draft an English translation of Mañjuśrī's Teaching of the Perfection of Wisdom from Xuanzang's Chinese. I've decided that … Continue reading Progress Report

Progress Report: the Diamond Sūtra

December 7, 2018April 26, 2019 ~ Charles Patton ~ Leave a comment

The past two weeks, I've been working on my new edition of Kumārajīva's Diamond Sūtra. This critical translation will be as accurate and readable as I can make it. My concerns as a translator of a text like this are twofold: It needs to readable, modern English. It needs to represent as closely as possible … Continue reading Progress Report: the Diamond Sūtra

A New Start: 20 Years Later

November 24, 2018February 13, 2019 ~ Charles Patton ~ Leave a comment

It's been a little more than 20 years since I first laid eyes on a volume of the Taisho Daizokyo as a young student at Ohio State University. I had begun to teach myself to read Chinese because of my frustration with how much one translation of the Dao De Jing varied from the next. … Continue reading A New Start: 20 Years Later

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