1834 Tibetan-English
dictionary of Alexander Csoma de Körös
1837 A
French translation of the Diamond Sutra made from Tibetan by the Russian Isaac Jakob Schmidt published in St. Petersburg
1851 Monier Williams’ Dictionary of Sanskrit-English published under patronage of East India Company
1852 Publication of French philologist Eugene Burnouf’s translation of the Lotus Sutra from Sanskrit,
marking the first full-length translation of a sutra from Sanskrit into a European language
1879 Sir Edwin Arnold’s Light of Asia published
1880 T.W. Rhys Davids’ translation of Buddhaghosa’s commentary on the Jataka tales
1881 The Dhammapada: a collection of verses; being one of the canonical books of the Buddhists translated from
Pâli by F. Max Müller
Jäschke’s Tibetan-English
dictionary
Buddhist Suttas Translated
from the Pali by T.W. Rhys Davids
Pali Text Society founded in
1881 by T.W. Rhys Davids "to foster and promote the study of Pali texts"
1884 W. Woodville Rockhill writes The Life of the Buddha and the Early History of His Order, derived from
Tibetan Works in the bKah-hgyur and bsTan-hgyur
Hendrick Kern translates Saddharma-Pundarika,
or Lotus of the True Law
1890 Questions of King Milinda by T.W. Rhys Davids
1902 Chandra Das’ Tibetan-English dictionary
1905 English-Tibetan
Colloquial Dictionary by Charles Bell
1907 Louis de la Vallée Poussin’s translation of Madhyamakavatara
1909 L.D. Barnett’s abridged translation of Bodhicharyavatara from Sanskrit in Wisdom of the East
series, London
1920 Louis Finot’s translation of Bodhicharyavatara from Sanskrit into French published in Paris
1922 Bendall and Rouse’s translation of Shantideva’s Shikshasamuccaya
1924 Buddhist Society in London founded by Christmas Humphreys
1925 Louis de la Vallée Poussin publishes Abhidharmakosha translation
1927 Sacred Books of the East volume 49 includes a translation of Ashvaghosha’s Buddhacharita by
E.B. Cowell and the Diamond Sutra and Heart Sutra by F. Max Müller
Tibetan Book of the Dead
published by Evans-Wentz
1928 Tibet’s Great Yogi Milarepa published by Evans-Wentz
1931 CAF
Rhys-Davids’ Dhammapada
Obermiller’s translation
of Uttaratantra-shastra published as Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle to Salvation, Acta Orientalia,
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1932 Stcherbatsky’s
Buddhist Logic
Obermiller’s History
of Buddhism by Bu-ston
D.T. Suzuki’s translation
of Lankavatara Sutra
1933 Albert
Grünwedel’s Die Legenden des Na ro pa published in Leipzig
Toussaint’s Le Dict
de Padma (Padma thang yig)
1935 Tibetan
Yoga and Secret Doctrines published by Evans-Wentz.
1937 Jacques Bacot’s French translation of the life of Marpa published in Paris
1949 G. Tucci’s Tibetan Painted Scrolls
Roerich’s Blue Annals
1950 Radhakrishnan’s
translation of Dhammapada
1954 Conze’s
Abhisamayalankara
Tibetan Book of Great Liberation
published by Evans-Wentz
1956 Nebesky-Wojkowitz’s famous study of the oracles and demons of Tibet
Bhikku Ñanamoli (Osbert Moore)’s
translation of Visuddhi Magga
1959 Guenther’s translation of Jewel Ornament of Liberation by Gampopa Turrel V. Wylie’s
article on Tibetan transcription in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Snellgrove’s Hevajra
Tantra
1962 Chang’s
One Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa
Lamotte’s L’Enseignement
de Vimalakirti
1968 First
of E. Gene Smith’s famous introductions
1970 Marion
L. Matics translation of Bodhicaryavatara from Sanskrit
1975 Trungpa
and Fremantle’s Tibetan Book of the Dead
1977 Lhalungpa’s
translation of the biography of Milarepa
1983 Hopkins’ Meditation on Emptiness
1991 Dorje and Kapstein’s The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism
1992 Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche
1994 Words of My Perfect Teacher translated by Padmakara Translation Group
2001-4 Complete translation of Je Tsongkhapa’s Lamrim Chenmo by Lamrim Chenmo Translation
Committee released