Bhutanese heads team to translate Tibetan Buddhist text

Visionary leader: Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche who leads the 84,000 translation project is in Malaysia this week to give public lectures.

BRINGING the true teachings of Buddha to the world by translating over 231,800 pages of text from Tibetan to English and other languages is a painstaking 100-year project.

The project called 84,000: Translating the Words of the Buddha officially started in January 2010.