Thursday, July 5, 2007

Buddha on your iPod

The Masked Downloader is in a contemplative, Zen-like mood today, and decided to round up a few of the many Buddhist web sites offering free MP3s downloads of chants, Zen talks, lectures and more:


BuddhaNet and blog Integral Options Cafe offer a huge selection of downloadable Buddhist chants from a wide variety of regions and schools.


Dharma Punx, a youth-oriented Buddhist movement led by teacher and counselor Noah Levine, offers a huge number of free, downloadable MP3 talks on various Buddhist tenets. It's very much an MTV-generation style of teaching; think tattoos and piercings instead of flowing robes and gongs. If you're looking for an easygoing, plain-language introduction to basic Buddhist thought, this is a great place to start.


The Berzin Archives, which focus on various forms of Tibetan Buddhism, offer dozens of downloadble lectures on both basic and advanced Tibetan Buddhist thought.


Free Buddhist Audio is, well, just what it sounds like! A fantastic resource from the Western Buddhist Order.


The Allan Watts Podcast features recorded lectures from the late Zen philosopher and popularizer of Buddhism in the West.


The San Francisco Zen Center offers dozens of downloadable dharma talks.


A collection of talks by Buddhist nun the Venerable Robina Courtin.


More than 400 downloadable lectures from the Tse Chen Ling Buddhist Center in San Francisco.


The Jamyang Buddhist Center in London offers a library of downloadable MP3 talks.


The Kurukulla Center for Tibetan Buddhist Studies has an extensive online library. Right-click on most links to download in MP3 format.


The Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition offers a number of downloadble MP3 talks by the Dalai Lama and others.

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