The Ka-ter Translation Project
The Translators’ Retirement donor’s package
We want to present you the latest initiative of the International Shang Shung Institute.
The main translators of the Dzogchen Community, Adriano Clemente, Elio Guarisco, and Jim Valby have spent more than 25 years on translating Tibetan sources, and have selflessly invested nearly all their time to the very demanding task of researching, studying and collating extremely challenging texts, and in that way to preserve and diffuse Dzogchen teachings. Not everybody is aware of the fact that becoming a qualified translator, especially of these very ancient and complex texts, is a full time and demanding job that requires a constant training of at least 10 to 15 years.
With the help of generous donors from all over the world we can now guarantee a small regular income for our translators when they are at work on a specific project. However, we are at the present, unable to provide them with any security in terms of retirement funds. We do not mean to say that our translators are getting too old to work, yet time passes for everyone: Adriano was born in 1958, Elio in 1954, and Jim in 1946. It is quite sure that once there will arrive the day where they want to retire, and so the Shang Shung Institute has come up with a retirement plan for our three translators. “
In the next years we will need to raise 150,000 Euro ( 50,000 Euro for each person), to ensure that our three translators will be able to receive about € 480 a month, from the moment they turn sixty-eight years old onwards. For that reason we want to ask you for your help and collaboration to help us realize this very important goal. You also have the possibility of paying in monthly installments.
Please remember that no donation is too small (or too large either!). And just to give you a small incentive we would like to let you know that anyone who gives a minimum donation of 444 Euro or 555 US Dollar will receive the “Translators’ Retirement donor’s package”, consisting of:
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"A Dream from the Display of the Moon in the Water" This is an unpublished teaching of Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, printed exclusively for this project
Translation: Adriano Clemente.
This booklet is a limited numbered edition of only 100 copies, each book has its own number. |
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A round silver pendant with the Longsal symbol.
Size: 2,5 cm or about 1 inch |
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"On Birth, Life and Death"
The latest book of Chögyal Namkhai Norbu on Tibetan Medicine, translated by Elio Guarisco. |
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The book "Two Dzogchen Texts"
translated by Jim Valby. |
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A cone-shaped crystal ball with an A inside
Size 6 cm or 2,2 inches, in a beautiful blue box.
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Free shipping of the above material everywhere in the world |
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You can send your donation by submitting it online through our web safe site.
You also can send a money transfer to:
Name of the bank: Raiffeisenbank Ilz
Address: Hauptstr. 39, 8262 Ilz, Austria
Bank Code: 38151
Account number: 30387 in the name of Shang-Shung Institute Austria
BIC (= SWIFT): RZSTAT2G151, IBAN: AT19 3815 1000 0003 0387
We thank you since now for your support to make this project become a concrete reality, and please do not hesitate to contact us with any question or clarification you may need.
