--- On Thu, 3/19/09, peaceinbuddha <[email protected]> wrote: From: peaceinbuddha <[email protected]> Subject: [vajrayana_penang] Buddhist translators petition reaches 10,000, for conference convened by Khyents To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, March 19, 2009, 8:54 PM Greetings. Thanks so much to the many thousands of signers. Please keep sending petition out far and wide: the petition drive has been extended. Below is information that can be sent to others, too, to recognize the work of dharma translators, notably a merit-worthy group of more than 50 at a conference happening this week --which is envisioning 100 years worth of Mahayana translations. .. clear, serious goals to help the dharma in places it's imperiled. Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche's Khyentse Foundation is the event sponsor. Greetings. A translators' conference featuring over 50 senior-most Buddhist translators is taking place now in India. A petition drive that has now surpassed goal of 10,000 signatures is helping show the importance of Buddhist translation. The Translating the Words of the Buddha Conference features translators of the highest repute. Sign The Petition: http://www.ipetitio ns.com/petition/ dharmatranslatio n/ More details at khyentsefoundation. org, an organization dedicated to supporting a wide variety of Buddhist traditions, and updates at http://www.facebook .com/group. php?gid=59296950 597 . [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
