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2023: Russia approved the creation of a single platform with access to books on Buddhism from around the world

Russia has approved the creation of a single platform with access to books on Buddhism from all over the world. This became known on August 19, 2023.

Following the work of the [first International Buddhist] Forum [held in August 2023 in Ufa]:... To begin the development of a unified academic information platform and a system for common access to materials and books on Buddhism in libraries around the world, the document says, excerpts from which lead. TASS

Creation of a single platform with access to books on Buddhism approved

The forum also resulted in the adoption of a resolution announcing the start of work on the creation of an international association of Buddhist research and education in order to strengthen the community of Buddhists and researchers from different countries.

One of the very important issues we have [is] the difficulty of translating Buddhist texts into other languages because the first texts were created in Pali - the Pali canon. They were translated many times into different languages ​ ​ - Chinese, Mongolian, Old Mongolian, Russian. Naturally, there are large discrepancies in the interpretation of many terms. And the first thing that seems very important to us is to compare translations, compare terminology, and on this basis create a new dictionary of Buddhist terms, in which both religious ministers and the largest researchers should take part, - explained the head of the Foundation for the Promotion of Buddhist Education and Research, Director of the Institute of Asian and African Countries Moscow State University. Lomonosov Alexey Maslov.

According to him, it is necessary to attract outstanding scientists, including from,,, Moscow and Buryatia Kalmykia Tuva St. Petersburg centers, scientists from Buddhist datsans, as well Russian Academy of Sciences as foreign researchers, to discuss the pressing problems of Buddhism.

That is, our task is to show that Buddhism is not only everyday faith, but also a very serious, scientific, scientific, philosophical, scientific and religious system, "added Maslov.[1]

2022: Japan creates digital Buddha for believers

In early October 2022, experts from Kyoto University in Japan announced the development of an experimental AI Buddha system - a virtual Buddha based on artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR) technologies. Read more here.

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