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- dharma-translation → translation: stripped conventions, kept only technique - Deleted mpi-project-conventions: all content now in AGENTS.md - References moved: meditation-translation, markdown-to-djot → translation/ translation-pitfalls, proofreading-patterns → translation-review/ - Updated AGENTS.md, readme.dj, memory, pdf skill cross-reference - 7 skills → 6 skills
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Meditation / Mindfulness Content Translation
When the source is a guided meditation script, exercise guide, posture instruction, or breathing practice (rather than a Dharma talk, sutra commentary, or teaching text), use a lighter workflow than the full dharma-translation pipeline.
Register
Default to warm, direct instructional voice (Thầy-adjacent):
- Second-person address ("you")
- Concrete images, sensory details
- Oral rhythm, short sentences
- Present tense, imperative mood
MB corpus consultation is NOT needed for register — this content type has its own well-established English conventions (yoga/meditation instructional voice).
Terms
Terms DB lookup for Buddhist-mindfulness vocabulary is useful but limited to key terms:
- 正念 → mindfulness
- 觉知 → awareness
- 无我 → depends on context: "non-self" for philosophical/Dharma content; "selflessly" for embodied/movement instruction where the sense is no separate controller imposing on the action
- 中道 → Middle Way
- 丹田 → dantian (keep as-is; well-known in meditation/qigong)
Context-sensitive terms:
- 心 (xīn): in meditation/movement contexts it often means "mind/attention" not emotional "heart." 持心 means holding the mind with focused attention, not holding with emotion.
- 念 (niàn): mindfulness/attention/recollection — context between these.
- Buddhist philosophical terms (无我, 空, 缘起) in non-philosophical contexts (movement instruction, body scans) may need practical/concrete translations rather than doctrinal ones.
Skip deep terms alignment unless dense Dharma vocabulary (emptiness, dependent origination, Buddha-nature, etc.) appears in the text.
Comparison files
Still create 对照.dj as usual. See comparison file format in this skill.
Pitfalls
- Don't add formatting the source doesn't have: sub-section labels using
【】in Chinese should become plain[label]in English, not*[label]*or**[label]**. Match the source's formatting level exactly. **text**is Markdown, not Djot: Djot emphasis uses single asterisks (*text*). Never use double asterisks in.djfiles.- 心 ≠ heart by default: in meditation/movement contexts, 持心 = holding the mind with attention, not holding with emotion. Translate based on context, not dictionary defaults.