Nearly three-hundred translators, teachers, students and scholars from all over the globe gathered for the initial welcome banquet and the official opening of the first Translation & Transmission Conference at the beautiful Keystone Conference Center in the mountains of Colorado. Eric Colombel of Tsadra Foundation welcomed everyone with a heartfelt speech about his personal journey from young Parisian student unable to find resources for the study and practice of Tibetan Buddhism to founding a nonprofit to develop those resources and share them with the world.