By Dr Alexander Berzin | Founder and Author of Berzin Archives
These last three months, as we head into winter, have been very busy and productive here at Study Buddhism. And now, as we approach the end of the year, we are also celebrating something very special: the 20th anniversary of our online presence.
Back on December 1st, 2001, we pressed launch on the Berzin Archives website with a handful of articles. Two decades later, making use of the thousands of transcripts collected by Dr. Berzin during his 29 years in India, along with plenty of newly written material, the website now boasts over 12,300 articles. And these articles are not just in English, but in 31 other languages as well.
Rebranded in 2015 as studybuddhism.com, the website’s content is now available to billions of people in their mother tongue. Of particular importance is that the website is available to all the traditionally Buddhist regions of Asia in their own languages, and also in seven Islamic languages. This pioneering work to make information available in these seven languages is especially relevant today, as interreligious dialogue and harmony is needed more than ever.
And our work goes on! We have been working hard to expand our presence on social media, to ensure that the content we create has as wide a reach as possible. Starting on October 1st, we have been posting several times a week, across all of the major platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok, creating personalized content suitable to each of these platforms. In general, we have posted one video, one article, and one or two quotes collected from our video interviews, every week. This has seen our followers and subscribers across all platforms increase substantially, while reach and engagement is up several hundred percent also.
Here are some of our accomplishments over these last three months:
All of this hard work is made possible by your continuing generous support. Together, we shall “Make the Ageless Wisdom of Tibet Available to All.”
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By Dr Alexander Berzin | Founder and Author of Berzin Archives
By Dr Alexander Berzin | Founder and Author of Berzin Archives
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