The 10,000 books of Wisdom translation project is translating the ancient books of Asia into modern languages. As we have 200,000 pages of literature in our database, this grand task is estimated to span over hundreds of years. We currently have 10 students learning the delicate art of translating from the source languages into English, and another 10 training to translate from English into other modern languages like German, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic. With the support of our sponsors, we intend to train several generations of translators to complete the task.

Each of the ten primary translators is working on the text representing a different subjects of Ancients wisdom thoughts and practices. The subjects currently working on are the vowed morality; higher knowledge; logic and perception; mind only; lower middle-way; meditating on emptiness; developing the good heart; comparative philosophy; and karma and its consequences.

Studying and working together in a group affords each translator an opportunity to be exposed to all of the unique writing styles found in the Buddhist scriptures, thus producing well-rounded translators with vast awareness of the more subtle nuances of the languages.