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The purpose of the Buddhist Wiki Canon is to make the voluminous Mahayana Chinese canon available to the English-speaking world as quickly as possible.
Efforts are underway to translate the entire Buddhist Canon, some with electronic translation and some are plodding through one text at a time. Regardless, the process of translating, reviewing, and editing by more than one bilingual individual helps to enhance the quality of the translation. The improved translations will also improve any program that attempts to automate translations, to the extent possible.
Thus far, a miniscule portion of the Taisho Mahayana Chinese Canon has been translated into English. Here are lists that include collections or citations of English translations:
http://www.bdk.or.jp/english/english_tripitaka/the_list.html
http://mbingenheimer.net/tools/bibls/transbibl.html
http://www.fodian.net/world/
http://www.buddhamountain.ca/EN_Taisho_Tripitaka.php
Here is Guo Cheen’s draft of all titles of the Taisho Canon in English: Tripitaka Lists
The reason that we are using an editor that imitates Wikimedia is because the aim here is “wiki”, to quickly translate the Buddhist Canon so that some initial draft is available for the English-speaking public. The “wiki” process also offers an opportunity to focus less on the ego, particularly in building a name for oneself as a Buddhist translator, editor, or scholar. This is meant to be in keeping with the Buddhist training. However, critiques such as Muller’s http://www.acmuller.net/wikipedia.html are duly noted too.
Any Buddhist who abides by the Five Precepts are welcome to register as an editor and help to: 1. Translate from Chinese to English, 2. Review the English against the Chinese, and 3. Edit and proofread the English.
Resources
DICTIONARIES
Digital Dictionary of Buddhism
Monier Williams Sanskrit Lexicon
Taiwan Public Library: List of Chinese Dictionaries
THESAURI
ON TRANSLATION THEORIES
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