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Dharma
Activities - JTK Publications |
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Je Tzong Khapa Editions, the publishing
house of Lama Tzong Khapa Institute, was
founded at the end of 2002. Je Tzong Khapa
Editions began with the aim of preserving
and spreading the teachings that have
been offered at the Institute over a period
of more than 25 years by some of the most
eminent Tibetan lamas as well as Western
scholars and practitioners. The publishing
house has incorporated the resources of
the "Tape Project," which was initiated
in 1983 in order to fulfill Lama Yeshe’s
wish that guided meditations related to
the study program be made available to
students. This project has been very important
in preserving the teachings of Lama Yeshe,
Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, resident geshes,
and the many visiting lamas to the Institute,
resulting in a vast archive of thousands
of hours of audio and video recordings.
Many of these are rare teachings by great
lamas who have since passed away.
JTK Editions is placing particular emphasis
on publishing teachings given by Geshe
Jampa Gyatso, who has been the Institute’s
beloved resident teacher for more than
20 years.
JTK’s projects and goals currently
include:
- Digitally preserving the Institute’s
audio-video archive of teachings, some
of which risk damage from aging and demagnetization.
Transferring these recordings into digital
format will make them far easier to access
and catalog, and thus more readily available
to the public in the future. A number
of CDs and DVDs of individually selected
and edited recordings are already available
from Je Tzong Khapa Publications.
- Publication of study courses, both
of brief and long duration, in CD and
DVD format and on the Internet
- Publication of sadhanas, commentaries
and prayers
- Translation of important scholarly Buddhist
texts into Italian. Projects currently
underway include translations of Meditation
on Emptiness (Jeffrey Hopkins) and
The Gelug-Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra
(His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Alexander
Berzin).
- Production of a glossary of Buddhist
terms in Italian.
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