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John Brady - 12th April 2022

ACIP transitions to the Asian Legacy Library

Snow on the Mountain, from Mongolia to South India. Explained by John Brady.

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Words to live by 2,500 years ago, just as they are

Words to live by 2,500 years ago, just as they are today. When you think about it, protection can come in many forms. The Outer form could look like physical protection… providing food and shelter, or financial help. The Inner form of protection could perhaps be the understanding that in order to see a world in which everyone takes care of each other as if we were one loving family, we need to change our own individual thoughts, our perceptions, our very minds. No matter what… it requires action! What positive thoughts did you have today that, if recognized, can begin to change your entire world? Share in the comments.

How beautiful is this? The extraordinary Tempangma

How beautiful is this? The extraordinary Tempangma manuscript of the Tibetan Kangyur that was created in 1431 on the order of Rabten Kunzang Pakpa (1389-1442). It consists of 111 volumes. Since its creation, it was copied many times, in particular during the reign of the great Fifth Dalai Lama. As an offering, The "Great Fifth" presented one of the most precious of two copies to the Mongol Emperor in 1671. It traveled for months over the mountains to the Mongolian capital by horseback. This Kangyur is one of the most exquisite examples of hand-drawn manuscripts in existence. ALL is lucky enough to have participated in the digital preservation of this priceless body of knowledge along with the National Library of Mongolia in Ulaanbaatar where it is housed. ALL continues its valuable work within the collection at the library.

So much of what we read in the modern world doesn’t benefit our heart and state of mind. What would a world look like where the core content helped elevate and educate the heart? At ALL we preserve scriptural treasures and classical masterpieces on ancient Asian thought. Meditation manuals, medical texts, yogic texts, training guides for compassion and more.

Our dedicated team in Mongolia at the National Lib

Our dedicated team in Mongolia at the National Library is working hard to keep wisdom alive. Each one of these texts holds ancient wisdom. Teachings on everything from ancient medicine, to mediation techniques. Please donate and support ALL via link in bio @asianlegacylibrary 📚

What kinds of actions are ethical or will have a g

What kinds of actions are ethical or will have a good result on our future thoughts? Taking care of animals? Being kind to people around you? What does “living an ethical life” mean to you? Maybe we should find out what this means to each of us personally... because according to Jetsun Drakpa Gyeltsen, it can change our experiences of life.

Here is an image of some of the wood block prints

Here is an image of some of the wood block prints we preserve from The Mongolian National Library. Donate to ALL and support the historic preservation of this global treasure.

Do you practice Ayurveda or use Ayurvedic principl

Do you practice Ayurveda or use Ayurvedic principles in your life? Thanks to your support and our staffs tireless efforts ALL is now in possession of one of the world’s most significant collections of Ayurvedic texts. You too can participate in the preservation of this ancient wisdom medicine.

This is a text of Manjushri, "The embodiment of Wi

This is a text of Manjushri, "The embodiment of Wisdom." Texts like these are being found and preserved. At ALL we make sure these texts are conserved and available to practitioners, scholars and whom ever is interested. We take great joy in making Wisdom available to all!

What does generosity feel like to you? Masters fro

What does generosity feel like to you? Masters from the past talk about this subject a lot - how giving makes you happy, fulfilled, abundant. But our question is, how does being generous feel to YOU? If you have donated any amount of money to ALL, first of all THANK YOU, but in addition could you share how you feel about the fact that you personally made an impact in the life of someone who lives in need on another side of the world? Do you feel as if it opens you to being more receptive to kindness in your own life? Or perhaps the act simply softens you in a visceral way. Or something else? We really want to know what you think. Please share in the comments.

Meet the women at the Hunsur, preservation center

Meet the women at the Hunsur, preservation center in South India.

ALL Awarded British Library Endangered Archives Pr

ALL Awarded British Library Endangered Archives Programme Grant

ALL has been awarded a competitive Major Project Grant from the British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme for the project “Digitization and Preservation of a Historic Collection of Mongolian Authors at the National Library of Mongolia.”

The project aims to select and preserve 500 volumes of unique and fragile material written by Mongolian authors in Tibetan language between 1700 and 1900 held at the National Library of Mongolia (NLM). Many volumes lack proper identification, include miscellaneous writings, and have not been opened in hundreds of years. Covering a wide array of topics, including social commentaries, medicine, biography, architecture, poetics, and music, the materials serve as a record of Mongolian culture and scholarship of essential significance both for Mongolians and for international scholars, researchers, and historians of Mongolia. Importantly, these writings express Mongolian perspectives on Buddhism, a rich and understudied topic. This project will be carried out in cooperation with the National Library of Mongolia and with the invaluable support of Sainbileg Byambadorj, who manages the digitization of the Tibetan collection at NLM.

The British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme (EAP) facilitates the digitization of archives that are in danger of physical deterioration. EAP offers grants to thirty select projects each year to preserve culturally important and vulnerable archives through digitisation. According to Lisbet Rausing, Co-Founder of the EAP, “The Endangered Archives Programme captures forgotten and still not written histories, often suppressed or marginalized. It gives voice to the voiceless: it opens a dialogue with global humanity’s multiple pasts. It is a library of history still waiting to be written.”

ALL is grateful for the funding support of the Endangered Archives Programme, and we are honored to carry out this vital project in collaboration with the National Library of Mongolia.

How we do work at the National Library of Mongolia

How we do work at the National Library of Mongolia.

Michael Roach tells us, “This photo is of the ac

Michael Roach tells us, “This photo is of the actual computer printout of the first Tibetan word processor in the world, which was created by ACIP in the early 1980s.
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The printout in this picture was done on one of the first laser printers of all time: a huge, $100,000 beast (the only one around at the time) at Bell Laboratories research center in New Jersey by a student of Khen Rinpoche’s who worked there, Steve Foster.
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Each letter was created by taking the best carving in the world—the Lhasa Kangyur—and projecting every possible letter combination about three feet high on the wall. Then a volunteer filled in every single dot that the printer would have to make, on a huge piece of graph paper.
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Yours truly did all the logic flows for the program, which required the unique ALL system of input and search that we have now!”

For over 34 years we have been locating, digitizin

For over 34 years we have been locating, digitizing, cataloging and distributing for free some of the most valuable collections of timeless Asian wisdom texts on the planet. Academic, authors, teachers and students of this preasious content from all around the world translate and teach what we have saved.

We are very grateful to all of you for supposrting us. All this wouldn`t be possible without you.

Thank You for supporting the Mongolia Project.

Thank You for supporting the Mongolia Project.

"Peacocks wander in the midst Of a forest of poiso

"Peacocks wander in the midst
Of a forest of poison trees;
A garden of healing herbs and plants
Maybe something lovely,
But peacocks have no love for them:
They live off the poison’s essence.

Bodhisattva warriors are the same:
A garden of glory and pleasures
May be something lovely,
But the warriors have no attachment for them:
They live off a forest of pain."

Dharma Rakshita
around 9th century, India

This is one of many great texts that we locate, digitize, and preserve.
Here master Dharma Rakshita, an Indian scholar, is comparing great spiritual warriors (bodhisattvas) to peacocks. How could we reside in a location called “the cycle of pain,” and yet still not be cycling around in it? He reminds us of how we can understand that there could be no beginning to this cycle, and yet still we could say it had an end.

What does this make you think of?
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Chakdor (Phyag rdor, 1868/9-1934), a.k.a. Čaǧdor

Chakdor (Phyag rdor, 1868/9-1934), a.k.a. Čaǧdor (Anggi Šaǧdor)

“First, awaken to one’s own heritage of the Great Vehicle. Relying on that, cultivate compassion to take on the burden of suffering. Then, obtain the view of the Middle Way by properly contemplating until you realize ignorance, i.e., clinging to a reality, which is the cause of suffering. Thereupon, cultivate compassion to take on the burden of bliss. Then, cultivate the mind of awakening. These are the stages for how a sharp-minded person, who is definite in the Great Vehicle lineage, generates the mind of supreme awakening.”

A testimony of Chakdor’s disciple Lamaajav in The Biography of Anggi Chakdor (Ang gi Phyag rdor gyi rnam thar)

Chakdor was born in the Gobi Mergen Wang banner of Khalkha Mongolian Tüsiyetü Qan province (Altanshireet, Dornogov’). Studying at a local monastery until the age of eighteen, he matriculated at Tashi Chöpel monastic college in Ih Hüree, where he flourished and became a great scholar and logician. For his remarkable skill in debate and exceptional ability in memorization, he was referred to by his colleagues and students as the “anggi,” meaning the best among his cohort. Although his collected works are said to consist of nine volumes published in Ih Hüree, only two to three volumes seem to have survived; these were published in Ulaanbaatar in 2008.

ALL is actively preserving the National Library of Mongolia where the writings of these fascinating scholars exist.

Jeff Wallman takes us behind the story of a text,

Jeff Wallman takes us behind the story of a text, entire worlds and visions that remain relevant today.

Meet the staff at the Varanasi preservation center

Meet the staff at the Varanasi preservation center, in north India.

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Marija Moertl @marijamoertl_goldclub and Yulia Dub

Marija Moertl @marijamoertl_goldclub and Yulia Dubanych @yuliadubanych_goldclub have been running the Gold Club since 2019. The Gold Club embraces Russian-speaking communities all over the world in support of the preservation efforts of the Asian Legacy Library. Through these challenging times, Marija and Yulia have come together to keep Gold Club going and growing and glowing!
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This dynamic duo is using both inner and outer methods based on timeless wisdom to help bring peace to the world and bring their Gold Club members together. Marija left Moscow in February. On April 11th she went into a four-week deep retreat for peace. Yulia left Kiev in March for a small town in the south of France, where she continues serving the Gold Club community. She recently hosted a two-week online course, Bridge of Gratitude, from April 25th to May 9th. Yulia is also skyrocketing her practice with the giving and taking meditation to cultivate compassion, as well as yoga asana in order to stay strong. ALL is touched by these two powerful women, especially their commitment and hard work to maintain their practices in difficult situations.
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The Gold Club has 3,100 donors supporting ALL, having given a total of US$774,230 over the past four years. It has become a model for how to support the vital mission of preserving timeless wisdom. There are now 16 international clubs that support ALL. We are so grateful to all of the organizers, volunteers, and supporters around the world.
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Here’s a big thank you to
the Gold Club’s Golden Women: Yulia and Marija!

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