Learn to live well with others through teachings on compassion, ethics, and the Bodhisattva path.
10 posts
2 July 2026
Dr. Annie Heckman discusses the craft of translating Buddhist monastic law, the challenges of honoring Tibetan syntax in English, AI's role in translation work, and her current book project on…
4 April 2025
Discover the origins of the three-month rainy season retreat tradition in this conversation with 84000 research editor Dr. Bob Miller about The Chapters on Monastic Discipline.
28 January 2025
Dr. Bob Miller explores the origins of Buddhist monastic life through newly published texts, tracing how wandering ascetics established the first sanghas.
30 October 2021
The Stem Array Sūtra's mind-expanding vision of infinite reality through the pilgrim Sudhana's encounters with unconventional teachers across vast dimensions of time and space.
9 August 2021
Translator Dr. Fumi Yao explores The Chapter on Medicines and how ancient Buddhist texts reveal an unexpectedly expansive view of what constitutes medicine.
14 July 2021
Beyond monastic rules, The Chapter on Medicines offers the Buddha's healing narratives, past-life stories, epidemic protection, and insights on devotion's karmic power.
3 April 2018
Using a simple plant as metaphor, the Buddha explains the twelve links of dependent origination in this brief teaching that bridges Theravada and Mahayana traditions.
25 March 2014
This sūtra presents the bodhisattva Akāśagarbha as a guide for Mahayana ethics and purification, offering practitioners instructions for confessing transgressions and receiving spiritual cleansing through dreams.
20 May 2013
Insights from translating The Play in Full, an extensive account of the life and deeds of the Buddha.
14 April 2013
Purification of Karmic Obscurations reveals how the Buddha addresses violations of moral ethics—insights from the translation process.
