++

skills/other-review/SKILL.md

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 ---
 name: other-review
 description: Editorial polish for CN→EN Buddhist translations you did NOT translate — voice, flow, readability. Load self-review first for terminology/accuracy.
+inputs: bilingual.dj (or source.dj + target.dj), or Google Doc
+outputs: review-comments.dj
 ---
 
 {% Serves AGENTS.md Workflow B2 (Other-Review) %}
@@ -486,8 +488,9 @@ Quoted text: `even discarded. Consequently, while countless companies emerged, t
 - **Google Docs anchor limitation**: The Drive API cannot create anchored comments
   on Google Docs. Use Mode B (output to review-comments.dj) for Google Doc targets.
   The user manually inserts comments in the browser UI. See the journey log at
-  `docs/google-docs-comment-journey.dj` for full details.
+  `references/google-docs-comment-journey.dj` for full details.
 - **Quoted text must be exact and unique**: when writing review-comments.dj, each
   quoted snippet must match the document text case-exactly and be long enough to
   find unambiguously with Ctrl+F. Short words like "consequently" are unacceptable
   — quote the full sentence or a 10+ word phrase.
+- **Mine review comments for reusable patterns**: when a review-comments.dj is produced, scan it for recurring calques and Buddhist term register issues and add them to `../self-review/references/translation-pitfalls.md` and `../self-review/references/buddhist-terminology.md`. The *人生百问* review produced a reusable pattern library — follow that example.

skills/self-review/SKILL.md

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 ---
 name: self-review
 description: Review your own CN→EN translations — three-pass review (terminology → mechanical → flow). Edit commented.dj with patch. For reviewing someone else's work, load other-review.
+inputs: bilingual.dj, or CSV/XLSX (Chinese + English columns)
+outputs: commented.dj, translation-findings.dj (optional)
 ---
 
 {% Serves AGENTS.md Workflow B1 (Self-Review) %}
@@ -105,6 +107,7 @@ category of error. Don't try to catch everything in one scan.
 **Pass 3 — flow/tonal/calques** (read the whole English as prose):
 - Re-read the full English target. Does it hang together as prose, or does it read as "translationese"?
 - Dramatic verbs that are calques of Chinese: "draw forth," "into full play," "shoulder," "look to with hope." See `references/translation-pitfalls.md` for the full calque checklist.
+- New: review the *人生百问* pattern tables in `translation-pitfalls.md` for stiff calques ("keen on," "wisdom culture," "more ultimate," "choice difficulty," "serve as reference") and idiom renderings ("tree wishing stillness," "straddling two boats").
 - Subject-shift calques: English substitutes a concrete agent (practitioners, people) for an abstract system noun (Buddhism, religion) — see pitfalls.
 - Factual inconsistencies across paired descriptions of the same person/place/thing.
 - Tonal coherence inside parallel lists: verb choice should be identical across First/Second/Third items.
@@ -206,6 +209,7 @@ Do not run extraction pipelines until scope is clear.
 - **Verify patches with `cat`** — `read_file` dedup makes it unreliable
 - **Re-read before fixing** — user may have made interim edits
 - **Batch terminology lookups** — when checking many terms against the terms DB, run them in one `execute_code` script that loops over a query list and calls `search.py` via `subprocess.run`. One terminal call per term floods the context with repetitive output.
+- **Mine review comments for patterns** — when a `review-comments.dj` is produced, scan it for recurring calques and term choices and add them to `references/translation-pitfalls.md` and `references/buddhist-terminology.md` so the skill improves with each review.
 
 ## Human Review Protocol (审议)
 

skills/self-review/references/buddhist-terminology.md

@@ -41,7 +41,92 @@ Terms encountered in Chinese-English translation of Dharma study materials. Thes
 - Poetry/prayer blocks: Chinese uses parallel structures (感恩... 感恩...; 愿... 愿...). English must match the parallelism.
 - 愿 (yuàn) at sentence start = optative "May..." — not "we hope that", not "we should".
 
-## Formatting artifacts
 
-- Stray spaces between Chinese characters (eg. `感 恩 研 究`) are justified-text paste artifacts from the source document — remove them.
-- `<!-- === Progress : Below are unprocessed === -->` is a processing marker — remove from final file.
+## Terms from 人生百问 review
+
+Terms encountered in the *人生百问* review that deserve explicit guidance.
+These supplement the general table above.
+
+| Chinese | English | Pitfalls / notes |
+|---|---|---|
+| 皈依三宝 | take refuge in the Three Jewels | DoT定稿 preferred. Avoid "take refuge hastily" — use "take refuge lightly" |
+| 三级修学 | Three-Stage Practice | DoT定稿. Not "Three-Level Study Program" |
+| 同喜班 | Tongxi Class | MPI convention; verify if glossary requires translation |
+| 人生佛教 | Buddhism for Human Life | Do not conflate with 人间佛教 / Humanistic Buddhism |
+| 人间佛教 | Humanistic Buddhism | Distinct from 人生佛教 |
+| 善知识 | wise teacher / great teacher / authentic teacher | Avoid redundant "great wise teachers" |
+| 大善知识 | great teacher / wise teacher | Redundant to render as "great wise teacher" |
+| 依止 | reliance / rely on | "reliance relationship" is awkward; prefer "teacher-student relationship" or "rely on" |
+| 报身 | reward body / enjoyment body | Verify target convention; MPI often prefers "reward body" (Skt. *sambhogakāya*) |
+| 化身 | transformation body / emanation body | Verify target convention |
+| 等流果 | result of equal outflow / correlative effect | Avoid ad-hoc "continuative result" |
+| 末法 | Dharma-ending age / Age of Dharma Decline | Check terms DB; avoid new coinages |
+| 暇满 | precious human life / leisure and endowment | "Well-endowed Human Form" is formal |
+| 暇满人身 | precious human body / well-endowed human form | Context-dependent |
+| 定课 | daily practice / fixed chanting session / daily recitation | Context-dependent; check terms DB |
+| 八步骤三种禅修 | Eight Steps and Three Types of Meditation | DoT定稿. Not "Three Kinds of Meditation" |
+| 八步三禅 | Eight Steps and Three Meditations | Shorter form; verify convention |
+| 功德 | merit / virtue | Context-dependent; do not default to "merit and virtue" |
+| 福田 | field of merit / field of blessing | Standard |
+| 止观 | śamatha-vipaśyanā / calm abiding and special insight | In lists: "śamatha-vipaśyanā" |
+| 皈依 | refuge / take refuge | In catalogues: noun form "refuge" |
+| 发心 | bodhicitta / aspiration / arousing the mind | In catalogues: noun form "aspiration" |
+| 戒律 | precepts / moral discipline | In catalogues: noun form "precepts" |
+| 正见 | right view | In catalogues: noun form "right view" |
+| 五戒 | five precepts | Standard |
+| 惑业 | delusion and karma | Not "confusion and karma" |
+| 大自在 | great freedom and ease | "Great freedom" alone loses the "ease" nuance |
+| 开启 | awaken / bring forth / unfold | Not "opened up" |
+| 迷惑 | delusion | In Buddhist contexts, not "confusion" |
+| 凡夫心 | mind of an ordinary being | Avoid Chan "ordinary mind" ambiguity |
+| 加持 | blessing / empowerment | "empowers one another" loses nuance; "supports and blesses one another" |
+| 四力 (忏悔) | four powers (of confession) | Standard: remorse, support, restraint, refuge/reliance |
+| 无缘大慈 | unconditional great compassion | Standard |
+| 同体大悲 | great sympathy of seeing others as oneself | Standard |
+| 人成即佛成 | When a Human Is Perfected, Buddhahood Is Perfected | Standard rendering |
+| 登地菩萨 | bodhisattva who has attained the grounds | Standard |
+| 弟子相 | marks of a disciple | Standard |
+| 自他相换 | exchanging self and others | Standard |
+| 明心见性 | clear the mind and see the nature | "Clear mind and seeing the nature" is slightly off |
+| 言语道断，心行处灭 | Where words fall silent and mental activity ceases | "Words are cut off" is too literal |
+| 无住生心 | arouse the mind without attachment | Standard |
+| 诸法如实相 | true suchness of all phenomena | Standard |
+| 颠倒梦想 | inverted dreams | Standard |
+| 颠倒妄想 | deluded inversion | Standard |
+| 十二因缘 | Twelve Links of Dependent Origination | Standard |
+| 无我 | no-self / anatman | Standard |
+| 我法二执 | attachment to self and dharmas | Standard |
+| 三性 (遍计所执性 / 依他起性 / 圆成实性) | three natures: falsely conceived, dependent, perfectly realized | Standard |
+| 末那 | Manas | Standard (Consciousness-Only) |
+| 阿赖耶 | Alaya | Standard (Consciousness-Only) |
+| 唯识 | Consciousness-Only | Standard |
+| 唯识三十论 | Thirty Verses on Consciousness-Only | Standard |
+| 认识与存在 | Cognition and Existence | Verify if this is a published translation title |
+| 三果 | third fruit / anāgāmi | Standard |
+| 现报 / 生报 / 后报 | reward in this life / next life / future life | "present reward, next-life reward, later reward" is acceptable but less standard |
+| 中观 | Madhyamaka | Standard |
+| 天台 | Tiantai | Standard |
+| 一念三千 | three thousand realms in a single thought | Standard (Tiantai) |
+| 三传 | Theravada / Chinese Buddhism / Tibetan Buddhism | Standard |
+| 南传 | Theravada | Standard |
+| 汉传 | Chinese Buddhism | Standard |
+| 藏传 | Tibetan Buddhism | Standard |
+| 佛陀出世的本怀 | Buddha's original purpose in appearing in the world | Standard |
+| 契理契机 | accordant with principle and adapted to the times | Standard |
+| 正本清源 | return to the source and clarify what is truly central | Standard |
+| 随缘 | responding to conditions / in harmony with conditions | Context-dependent |
+| 随喜 | rejoice | Standard |
+| 善知识 | wise teacher / good teacher / authentic teacher | Avoid "great wise teachers" |
+| 定课 | daily practice / fixed chanting session | Context-dependent |
+
+{% The following terms already appear in the "Key Buddhist terms" table above; they are retained here only when the 人生百问 review adds distinct guidance. %}
+
+| 法义 | Dharma teachings / understanding | Consistency within a document matters |
+| 闻思修 | hearing, contemplating, cultivating | 修 is broad cultivation, not just meditation |
+| 传帮带 | transmit, help, guide | Three-part mentoring |
+| 分灯 | lamp-dividing | Decentralization of authority |
+| 自觉 | self-awareness / voluntary commitment | First of the "Three Spirits" |
+| 法治 | rule-based governance | Second of the "Three Spirits" |
+| 无我利他 | selfless service to others | Third of the "Three Spirits" |
+| 重要感、优越感、主宰欲 | sense of importance, superiority, desire to control | Three ego-driven motivations |
+

skills/self-review/references/translation-pitfalls.md

@@ -279,6 +279,163 @@ initial/middle/great scope."
 
 ### Translating before consulting terms DB
 
-Always search key terms BEFORE translating. The dharma-translation skill says to do
-this, but it's easy to skip. Use the CLI: `$MPI_PROJECT_ROOT/terms-search/search.py <query>`.
-Prioritize DoT定稿 > 内部特色词 > 佛教术语 > 经论名.
+
+## Patterns from 人生百问 review (self-review findings)
+
+The review of *人生百问* surfaced a set of recurring calques, register
+mismatches, and Buddhist-term choices that keep reappearing in MPI
+CN→EN work. Treat these as a supplemental checklist after the main
+translation-pitfalls list.
+
+### Stiff / formal calques to soften
+
+| Source pattern | Stiff / literal rendering | Smoother options |
+|---|---|---|
+| 热衷于 / 很热衷 | "keen on" | "eager to," "enthusiastically pursuing" |
+| 善用理性 | "use reason skillfully" | "use reason well," "use reason wisely" |
+| 随缘 | "responding to conditions" | "in harmony with conditions" (when it flows better) |
+| 人云亦云 | "serve as reference" | "provide guidance," "serve as a reference" |
+| 引起共鸣 | "arouse resonance" | "resonate," "strike a chord" |
+| 强势而偏执 | "forceful and opinionated" | "forceful and dogmatic," "domineering and inflexible" |
+| 执着外境 | "cling to all sorts of external pursuits" | "cling to all sorts of external conditions" |
+| 一时兴起 | "spur-of-the-moment impulse" | "spur-of-the-moment idea" |
+| 大龄青年 | "older unmarried young people" | "older singles," "unmarried adults" |
+| 更受欢迎 | "more welcome" | "more well-liked," "more welcomed by others" |
+| 想起来很急，做起来又不急 | "feel urgent but do not act urgently" | "urgent in thought but not in deed" |
+| 随大流 / 大众化的 | "popular" | "mass-oriented," "public," "for the general public" |
+| 养生之道 | "wisdom culture" | "wisdom tradition," "culture of wisdom" |
+| 以此作为标准 | "take X as the only standard" | "make X the only standard" (when the sentence is top-heavy) |
+
+### 究竟 / 终极 / 更高层次
+
+| Source | Awkward | Preferred |
+|---|---|---|
+| 更究竟 | "more ultimate" | "more complete," "more profound," "higher" |
+| 更究竟的成功 | "a more ultimate success" | "a more complete success," "a higher success" |
+
+In conversational Q&A, 究竟 often reads better as "complete" or "profound"
+than as the technical "ultimate." Reserve "ultimate" for explicit doctrinal
+discussions of 究竟谛 / ultimate truth.
+
+### Buddhist term register
+
+| Source | Issue | Preferred guidance |
+|---|---|---|
+| 大自在 | "great freedom" loses the "ease" nuance | "great freedom and ease" |
+| 开启智慧 | "opened up boundless wisdom" is odd | "awakened," "brought forth," "unfolded" |
+| 迷惑 (as affliction) | "confusion" is too generic | "delusion" (in Buddhist contexts) |
+| 惑业 | "confusion and karma" | "delusion and karma" (check terms DB) |
+| 善知识 | "great wise teachers" is redundant | "great teachers," "wise teachers," "authentic teachers" |
+| 皈依三宝 | "take refuge hastily" | "take refuge lightly," "take refuge without being ready" |
+| 尽未来际 | "for all future time" is literal | "for all future lives," "throughout all future time" |
+| 患得患失 | "worried about personal gains and losses" | "anxious about gain and loss" |
+|  religious community | vague | "Buddhist community," "Sangha" |
+| 报身 | "enjoyment body" vs "reward body" | Verify target convention; MPI often prefers "reward body" |
+| 化身 | "transformation body" is common | Verify against target convention |
+| 等流果 | "continuative result" | Standard: "result of equal outflow," "correlative effect" |
+| 四力 (忏悔) | "power of eradication / remedy" | Use standard four powers terminology: remorse, support, restraint, refuge/reliance |
+| 末法 | "Dharma-ending age" / "Age of Dharma Decline" | Check terms DB; avoid inventing new renderings |
+| 暇满 | "well-endowed human form" | Standard: "leisure and endowment," "precious human life" |
+| 定课 | "fixed chanting session" | "daily practice," "daily recitation" (context-dependent) |
+| 八步骤三种禅修 | "Eight Steps and Three Kinds of Meditation" | DoT定稿: "Eight Steps and Three Types of Meditation" |
+| 功德 | "merit and virtue" (overused) | "merit" or "virtue" depending on context |
+| 福田 | "field of blessing" | Standard: "field of merit/blessing" |
+| 止观 | "calm abiding and special insight" | Or "śamatha-vipaśyanā"; avoid inventing new compounds |
+| 皈依 / 发心 / 戒律 / 正见 | gerund lists | Noun forms in catalogues: "refuge, aspiration, precepts, right view" |
+| 凡夫心 | "ordinary mind" | "mind of an ordinary being" (avoid Chan "ordinary mind" ambiguity) |
+| 加持 | "empowers one another" | "supports and blesses one another" (retain religious nuance) |
+| 登地菩萨 | "attained the grounds" | Standard rendering |
+| 弟子相 | "marks of a disciple" | Standard rendering |
+| 无缘大慈、同体大悲 | — | "unconditional great compassion and the great sympathy of seeing others as oneself" |
+| 人成即佛成 | — | "When a Human Is Perfected, Buddhahood Is Perfected" |
+| 人生佛教 | — | "Buddhism for Human Life" (do not conflate with 人间佛教 / Humanistic Buddhism) |
+| 三级修学 | — | DoT定稿: "Three-Stage Practice" |
+| 同喜班 | — | "Tongxi Class" (MPI convention; verify if glossary requires translation) |
+
+### Idioms and set phrases
+
+| Source | Literal / awkward | Preferred |
+|---|---|---|
+| 妄念纷飞 / 妄想纷飞 | "delusive thoughts still fly about" / "random thoughts fly about" | "delusions run wild," "wandering thoughts arise" |
+| 望尘莫及 | "outdo animals by far" (wrong direction) | "animals cannot compare," "are left far behind" |
+| 脚踏两条船 / 骑墙 | "straddling two boats" | "riding two boats," "trying to walk two paths" |
+| 选择困难症 | "choice difficulty" | "decision paralysis," "choice paralysis" |
+| 树欲静而风不止 | "the tree wishing stillness while the wind keeps blowing" | "the tree may crave stillness, but the wind will not cease" |
+| 磨刀不误砍柴工 | — | "sharpen the ax before cutting wood" (standard) |
+| 泥菩萨过江 | "clay bodhisattva" | Allude to the idiom; may need explanatory note |
+| 鄙视链 | "contempt chains" | Loan-translation is acceptable; keep if context is clear |
+| 十年浩劫 | "decade of catastrophe" | International readers may need a gloss |
+| 红尘滚滚 | "rolling red dust" | Acceptable in Buddhist register; do not soften |
+| 因上努力，果上随缘 | — | "work hard on the causes and let the results unfold as they may" |
+| 朝不保夕 | "we may not last until evening" | "life is precarious" |
+| 本末倒置 | — | "put the cart before the horse" |
+| 润物细无声 | — | "quiet, pervasive influence, like rain soaking into the earth unnoticed" |
+| 有口无心 | — | "with their mouths but not their hearts" |
+| 人非圣贤，孰能无过 | "To err is human" | Acceptable, but note it loses the Buddhist register |
+| Standard Buddhist idiom | — | Always prefer established English Buddhist idiom when one exists (e.g. Diamond Sutra "lives" not "bodies") |
+
+### Sentence structure / rhythm
+
+| Pattern | Problem | Fix |
+|---|---|---|
+| 3+ clause sentences | Can't be read in one breath | Split at natural breaks, especially after "world" or "Dharma" |
+| Top-heavy sentences | Main clause arrives too late | Move the main clause forward |
+| "is it not too late to X" | Inverted clause is awkward | "it is not too late to X" |
+| "patterned, standardized" | "patterned" is odd in English | "structured, standardized" or "model-based, standardized" |
+| "way of management" | awkward collocation | "approach to management," "style of governance" |
+| "correction of X through correcting Y" | repetitive | "transform X by correcting Y" |
+| "special circumstances are encountered" | passive/abstract | "special circumstances may create an exception" |
+| "formed from the Buddha's wisdom and merit" | mechanical | "arises from," "embodied wisdom and merit" |
+| "with every sound entering the ears" | flat idiom | "with every syllable clearly heard" |
+| "influenced by the liberation of individuality" | wrong collocation | "emancipation of the individual," "individual liberation" |
+| "the optimization of life" | technical-sounding | "flourishing of life," "growth in life" |
+| "right-livelihood occupation" | redundant | "right livelihood" |
+| "when time is used more valuably" | awkward adverb | "when time is used more wisely" |
+| "doing great things" | OK | Keep plain; do not overtranslate 做大事 |
+| "speak merely to show off your own cleverness" | misses idiom | 逞口舌之快 → "speak for the thrill of it," "indulge in sharp talk" |
+| "the power of eradication... the power of remedy" | non-standard | Use standard four powers terminology |
+| "pincer attack from within and without" | too militaristic in pastoral context | "pressure from within and without," "assault from both sides" |
+| "stalemate" | OK but possibly cold | "stuck place," "impasse" in spiritual contexts |
+| "persevere in one sutra" | loses metaphor | "go deeply into one sutra" |
+| "muddle-headedly" | rare adverb | "in a muddled way," "without understanding" |
+| "thoroughly applied" | slightly off | "when proficiency develops" |
+| "Using relics to check seems a little too late" | OK but flat | "Using relics as a measure seems rather late in the day" |
+| "unknowable mysticism" | 玄学 ≠ mysticism | "unknowable mystery" |
+| "reliance relationship" | awkward | "teacher-student relationship" |
+| "every place becomes a place of practice" | repetitive | "everywhere becomes a field of practice" |
+| "keeping an ordinary mind when things go well and still keeping an ordinary mind when things go badly" | wordy | "keeping an ordinary mind in both good times and bad" |
+| "ordinary, lax, and indulgent mind" | acceptable but loose | "ordinary mind of laxity and indulgence" |
+
+### Register: spoken Q&A vs. written Dharma
+
+*人生百问* is conversational Q&A. Keep the English warm and direct:
+
+| Stiff / written | Conversational |
+|---|---|
+| "I do not think so necessarily." | "Not necessarily." / "I don't think so." |
+| "bustle about for liberation" | "rush about," "busy themselves" |
+| "starting a family is for liberation from singlehood" | "liberation from being single" |
+| "Seen only from the surface" | "On the surface," "From a surface view" |
+| "If one is liberated, how can these dreams be realized?" | "...how can these dreams still be realized?" |
+| "I deeply know that..." | "I know full well that..." |
+| "For yourself, you must..." | "First, for yourself..." / "Personally, you must..." |
+| "I believe that the external conditions we attract will also change." | "the conditions we draw to ourselves will also change" |
+
+### Parallelism and grammar fixes
+
+| Issue | Example | Fix |
+|---|---|---|
+| Gerund/infinitive mismatch | "drawing near to wise teachers and to rely on them" | "draw near to wise teachers and rely on them" |
+| Missing "still" | "how can these dreams be realized?" | "how can these dreams still be realized?" |
+| Mixed singular/plural | "the largest debt, not all of them" | "the largest debt, not every debt" |
+| Redundant compound | "sharp and keen faculties" | "sharp faculties" or "keen faculties" |
+| "disorder" as verb | "'nao' is to disorder" | "'nao' is to disturb" |
+
+### Meta-pattern: when the review produces `review-comments.dj`
+
+After a self-review or other-review pass, scan the resulting
+`review-comments.dj` for **recurring patterns** and add them to this file
+and to `buddhist-terminology.md`. The review of *人生百问* began as a
+single article checklist and became a reusable pattern library; future
+reviews should do the same.
+

skills/translation/SKILL.md

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 ---
 name: translation
 description: Translate Chinese↔English Buddhist/Dharma content — register guidance from Mindfulness Bell corpus, tone, voice, cultural bridging technique.
+inputs: source.dj (Chinese djot), or .docx via docx2dj.fish
+outputs: target.dj (English djot), bilingual.dj, edit-suggestions.dj
 ---
 
 # Translation
@@ -39,7 +41,7 @@ Quick-find in index: Thầy talks → `"Thích Nhất Hạnh"` + page ≤ 10; te
 ### Pre-flight accuracy check
 
 Before delivering a translation, run through the structured accuracy/readability
-taxonomy in `skills/translation-review/references/common-issues-taxonomy.md`.
+taxonomy in `../self-review/references/common-issues-taxonomy.md`.
 Catching these before review saves iteration cycles:
 - Omission, over-literal renderings, over-free renderings, subject confusion,
   overtranslation, terminology errors
@@ -93,7 +95,7 @@ Read the English aloud — if a sentence can't be spoken in one breath, fix it.
 
 These are common patterns (not an exhaustive list). For the full taxonomy with
 more categories and examples, read
-`../translation-review/references/common-issues-taxonomy.md`.
+`../self-review/references/common-issues-taxonomy.md`.
 
 Examples of systematic adjustments:
 
@@ -112,18 +114,58 @@ Examples of systematic adjustments:
    contractions, direct address, concrete images. If the English reads like a
    paper abstract, warm it up. Check against the MB corpus registers for the
    target genre.
+6. **Review-specific calques**. For *人生百问*-style Q&A, check the pattern
+   tables in `../self-review/references/translation-pitfalls.md` for recurring
+   stiff calques ("keen on," "more ultimate," "choice difficulty," etc.) and
+   the Buddhist-term register notes in `../self-review/references/buddhist-terminology.md`.
 
 Do NOT apply these mechanically — each is a judgment call. A passive may be
 correct when the agent is unknown; a nominalization may be the right technical
 term. The goal is natural English that matches the source's register, not a
 formulaic rewrite.
 
+## Quality Gates (Before Declaring Done)
+
+Run this self-check before you hand off a first-pass translation. The goal is to
+catch the most expensive errors while they are still cheap to fix. For the full
+post-translation review workflows, load `self-review` and `other-review`.
+
+### Accuracy
+
+- [ ] **Line parity**: source and target line counts match exactly.
+- [ ] **No missing content**: every Chinese paragraph, quote, poem, or rhetorical
+  climax has a corresponding English rendering.
+- [ ] **No overtranslation**: no parenthetical expansions or explanations not in
+  the source.
+- [ ] **Terminology**: key Buddhist terms checked against the MPI terms DB
+  (`terms-search` skill). Consistent within the file.
+- [ ] **Source faithfulness**: no concepts added, no details dropped.
+
+### Readability
+
+- [ ] **Active voice**: abstract/subjectless passives converted to "we" or a
+  concrete agent where possible.
+- [ ] **Noun → verb**: `the propagation of` → `spread`; `placed emphasis on` →
+  `emphasized`.
+- [ ] **Sentence length**: no sentence that cannot be spoken in one breath; split
+  at natural breaks.
+- [ ] **Plain vocabulary**: `constitute` → `is/make up`; `facilitate` → `help`;
+  `endeavor to` → `try to`.
+- [ ] **Register**: match the genre — Dharma talks and dialogues should sound
+  spoken, not like paper abstracts.
+- [ ] **Concrete over abstract**: `mode of existence` → `way of living`;
+  `ideological content` → `ideas`.
+
+### Final pass
+
+Read the entire English target aloud. If anything stalls, rephrase it.
+
 ## Meditation / Mindfulness Content
 
 When translating guided meditation scripts, exercise guides, or posture instructions
 (rather than Dharma talks), use a lighter workflow. See `references/meditation-translation.md`.
 
-## Pitfalls
+## Other Pitfalls
 
 ### article-specific scripts
 
@@ -138,4 +180,4 @@ Create article-specific scripts per `references/proofread-pdf-workflow.md`.
 - `references/bilingual-format.md` — bilingual.dj layout: source/target adjacent, blank separator between pairs
 - `references/diacritics-convention.md` — diacritics rules
 - `references/proofread-pdf-workflow.md` — pattern for creating article-specific PDF-vs-DOCX comparison scripts
-- `../translation-review/references/common-issues-taxonomy.md` (cross-skill) — structured accuracy/readability checklist for pre-flight review
+- `../self-review/references/common-issues-taxonomy.md` (cross-skill) — structured accuracy/readability checklist for pre-flight review