Welcome to Triratna Translations

Many of Sangharakshita’s core books and some books of his disciples have been translated into a range of languages over the years. Translation projects have received more support and attention in recent years, especially since 2011 when a group of European chairs inspired a Translation Fund as part of the European Chairs Assembly (ECA). A few years ago it changed into the International Triratna Translations Board (ITTB) and you can read more about translations here.

The main rituals and ceremonies used in the Triratna Buddhist Community are already translated into many languages where Triratna has some presence or connection. See below for various language-based groups, and do join any that you are interested in. The aim is to translate the same texts into all languages: 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.

In time we may include other materials in different languages, such as introductions to the mindfulness of breathing and metta-bhavana meditations, basic Buddhism and an introduction to the Triratna Buddhist Community and how it works. And also a follow-on project with recordings read or chanted by native speakers – please let us know if you’d like to contribute to that.

Here are the languages (underlined) that we’ve got translations in, so far. Just click on the underlined language to read more:

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

BOOK AND PDF
Texts from most of the above languages have been assembled by Lokabandhu into a handsome hardback book, ‘Buddhist Ceremonies in Many Languages’, available from Lulu, or here as a pdf.  

QUESTIONS, COMMENTS OR SUGGESTIONS
Please write to: int.triratna.translations.board@gmail.com