Translation Projects
Khenpo Ngawang Jorden (PhD), Director of IBA, compiled a list of priority translation projects, including important texts by the main upholders of the Sakya tradition.

The first texts to be translated include:

• Khenchen Appey Rinpoche’s Teachings on Sakya Pandita’s "Clarifying the Sage’s Intent" (thub pa'i dgongs gsal)
This text has been translated into English and is being translated into Mandarin, Russian and Spanish.

• Sakya Pandita’s "Bodhicitta according to the Madhyamaka Tradition" (dbu ma lugs kyi sems bskyed kyi cho ga)
This text serves as a manual describing the theory and practice of generating bodhicitta, the altruistic disposition to attain Buddhahood for the sake of all beings.

• Rongtön Chenpo’s "Commentary on the Uttaratantraśāstra" (theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos legs par bshad pa) (sponsored)
This text is an authoritative commentary on the classic Indian Treatise concerning Buddha Nature.

• Rongtön Chenpo’s "Commentary on the Abhisamayālaṃkāra" (tshig don rab gsal)
This comprehensive text details the stages and realizations a Bodhisattva experiences on the Mahāyāna path.

• Rongtön Chenpo’s "Commentary on the Dharmadharmatāvibhāga" (chos dang chos nyid rnam 'byed rnam bshad)
This commentary distinguishes conventional phenomena from the ultimate nature.    

• Rongtön Chenpo’s "Commentary on the Madhyāntavibhāga" (dbus mtha' rnam 'byed rnam bshad mi pham dgongs rgyan)
Commentary on the future buddha Maitreya’s differentiation of the pure view from the erroneous views of eternalism and nihilism.

• Künkhyen Gorampa’s "Abhidharma treatise on aggregates, fields and elements of perception" (phung khams skye mched kyi rnam bzhag)
A clear presentation of the various factors underlying our fundamental human experience according to the Mahāyāna Abhidharma.

• Künkhyen Gorampa’s "General Meaning of the Middle Way" (dbu ma spyi don)
An encyclopedic treatment of the development of Madhyamaka in India and Tibet with thorough clarifications and refutations of its various philosophical points.