Weekly Journal
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(A Late) March-April 2024 Update
This post is to catch up on the Saṃyukta Āgama releases and updates from February and March of 2024. I was rather ill at the end of February and beginning of March and missed the planned update, but I continued working once I had recovered. Since the last update, work continued on the Aggregates and… Continue reading
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Recent Updates and Plans for 2024
Hello, everyone. First, apologies for the long hiatus from posting here at the Dharma Pearls blog. The translation project itself took a hiatus to attend to the task of migrating all of the project’s translations from the four Āgamas to SuttaCentral’s legacy html format. This work occupied our time from September to November last year.… Continue reading
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Ekottarika Āgama Update (Week 31)
I’m happy to report that we’ve recovered from the illness that visited us last month, and I’ve released translations of EĀ 12.10, 13.1-7, and 14.1-10. With these three chapters, we’ve reached the end of the Book of Ones. I wrote a lengthy summary of the chapters added last month at SuttaCentral’s Discuss & Discover forum… Continue reading
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Ekottarika Āgama Update
Hello, everyone. So, July has not begun well. At the end of June, I started releasing new translations, and I was hoping to have released most of EA chapter 13 this week, but unfortunately COVID-19 visited our household. Myself and my wife have been incapacitated for the past week, but the fever broke and we’re… Continue reading
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Ekottarika Āgama Update (Week 23)
Hello, everyone. Apologies for going quiet for the past couple months. I’ve working on other projects and research since April that ended up taking up most of my time. It was good time spent on background research delving into ancient history as well as exploring the parallels to some of EĀ’s larger sūtras like EĀ… Continue reading
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Week 13 Update
Hello, again! I hope everyone has had an excellent couple of weeks. Here in California, we have nearly completed our exit from the extreme drought of the past few years. It’s really an amazing turnaround. These erratic and extreme weather patterns remind me of the extreme weather the world suffered during the Little Ice Age… Continue reading
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Week 11 Update: Editing, Coding, and Uncertainty
Hello, again, from southern California, where we are gearing up for more rain. The drought is officially over in many parts of the state, which really was in the nick of time. There haven’t been any new releases this week. Instead, my time has been devoted to editing and researching translations that have already been… Continue reading
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Week 10 Update: EĀ Chapters 2-3, 8-9 Released
It’s been two months since I posted an update! Time flies sometimes. I will be making an effort to set aside time to blog more frequently in the future. I’m going to shoot for a post once a week, perhaps more. (Which means once a week or biweekly, probably.) The heavenly messengers of birth, illness,… Continue reading
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Week 1 Update: EĀ Ch. 1 Released!
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
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The Ekôttarika Āgama Project Begins
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