By Dr. Alexander Berzin | Founder and Author of Berzin Archives
Over the summer, our team of translators, editors, content creators and web specialists have been hard at work producing material in our 31 languages and making important improvements to the website. As the coronavirus crisis continues to develop across the world, we are more focused than ever in bringing much-needed Buddhist wisdom to our growing audience.
And in fact, at the end of August 2020, we reached a momentous milestone in our history: 10,000 articles live on our website. Through the steadfast efforts of Dr. Alexander Berzin over the last half a century, along with the efforts of countless individuals over the last 20 years, Study Buddhism has helped to promote the precious Dharma teachings of Tibet, making them widely available in 31 languages and preserving them for future generations. We are excited to bring the next 10,000 articles to you!
Our social media channels have continued to see fast growth over the summer, especially as we started to share non-English content. During the month of June, we implemented a weekly post from our Essentials section in 31 languages, targeting the posts to particular countries and linguistic regions. The project was a great success, with our content reaching 5.8 million people on Facebook, engagement up over 600%, and our Facebook following increasing by 5,000 people in June alone.
Our translators and editors have prepared 572 new articles and 650 new subtitle files, working out to an amazing 14 new translations completed every single day. For our YouTube channel, we’ve prepared 59 new videos, taken from 4 interviews, and we are about to release our channel’s first interview with a non-Buddhist teacher: Dr Imtiyaz Yusuf, an expert of Islamic-Buddhist relations, as part of our work to foster harmonious relations between these two large religious groups. You’ll find more details in the bulleted list below.
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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