Browse films, documentaries, conversations and teachings by path and format. 64 videos.
64 videos
Sangye Khadro (Kathleen McDonald) joins a dialogue on compassion, drawing on her decades of Buddhist teaching and practice.
How to Train a Happy Mind
An oral history interview with one of the few women to hold a Sakya transmission, on her training in Tibet and the years after.
Tibet Oral History Project
A short interview filmed by Karmapa Youth in Berlin in which Khandro Rinpoche answers questions from young practitioners.
Karmapa Youth
A full conversation with Schlefer on Music Matters: how a Western musician came to the Kinko repertoire, and what the solo honkyoku asks of a player.
Jason Tramm (Music Matters)
The full Buddha at the Gas Pump conversation with Eva Natanya, on what Buddhist and Christian contemplative practice each ask of a person.
Buddha at the Gas Pump
Nicole Baden talks with podcast host Elizabeth Rovere about how Zen practice can reshape the way we live our lives.
The Wonderstruck Podcast with Elizabeth Rovere
Sangye Khadro is interviewed about cultivating loving-kindness as a Buddhist practice.
Innercraft
Cynthia Jurs on her spiritual mission and the Earth Treasure Vase project.
Respectful Revolution
Bhante Gunaratana leads a Dhamma discussion at the Indiana Buddhist Temple.
Bhante Devananda
Tenzin Palmo and Khenpo Rinchen discuss in English how Buddhist practice is carried out in contemporary life.
Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo Archive
B. Alan Wallace discusses his path from monk to scholar of Buddhism and consciousness studies.
Conscious TV
An interview by Renate McNay for Conscious TV.
An interview on the Guru Viking podcast about the jhanas and his teacher Ayya Khema.
Guru Viking
Iain McNay asks him how a punk bass player ended up a Sōtō priest, and what he thinks the robes are worth.
An hour and a half on his training with Nishijima, on dissolving the organisation he inherited, and on teaching without a lineage to lean on.
An interview recorded at Karma Tashi Ling in Oslo in April 2009 about what Buddhism can offer people today.
KarmaTashiLing
Geshe Tenzin Zopa recounts his difficult relationship with his father and how Buddhist practice brought him to forgiveness.
Study Buddhism
Riley Lee talks through his beginning in 1970, the instrument itself, and what carrying the komusō repertoire has meant for his own playing.
Riley Lee Music
An hour-long conversation in which Ty Powers is interviewed about staying present with discomfort in practice and in daily life.
studio BE
A long conversation with the biologist Rupert Sheldrake on what science and the contemplative traditions each say about reality.
Rupert Sheldrake
A half-hour conversation from January 2021 on his life, his lineage and the Bön tradition outside Tibet.
Latri Nyima Dakpa Rinpoche
Thubten Chodron is interviewed about her life as a Buddhist nun and her teaching work, in an interview filmed for Korean television.
Sravasti Abbey
An interview on the Guru Viking podcast about jhana practice under Pa Auk Sayadaw.
The first part of a long interview, on the Chikushinkai school he teaches in and on what he inherited from Yokoyama Katsuya.
Markus Guhe
Dza Kilung Rinpoche discusses realization and the Dzogchen path.
Shambhala Publications
Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche is interviewed on the practice of kindfulness.
Conscious Collective
A long-form interview in which Lama Surya Das describes his years of study in the Tibetan tradition and his teaching work in the West.
Buddha at the Gas Pump®
Roger Walsh and John Dupuy interview Lama Surya Das about self-knowledge, his years in silent retreat and what he calls the path of awakefulness.
Deep Transformation Podcast
Ringu Tulku Rinpoche reflects on the practice of taking refuge as a path to self-love.
RinguTulku
Ten minutes on how a Brazilian investment banker became a monk, and on the centre he now helps run in Florida.
Who Gets to Decide?
A conversation with Pamutto Bhikkhu about how a Canadian musician became a forest monk.
Ajahn Sona
An hour and a half with Jon Joseph of Pacific Zen Institute on storytelling as a form of practice.
Pacific Zen Institute
An hour with Stephen Batchelor on where practice and making things meet, and where they get in each other's way.
Tricycle
He talks about Dolpo in northern Nepal, the high valley he comes from and one of the last places where Bön has been practised without interruption.
Khyungdzong
Spring Washam discusses race, wisdom, and creative awakening.
Albert Flynn DeSilver
Phakchok Rinpoche discusses his book Awakening Dignity in a public bookstore talk hosted by Northshire Bookstore.
Northshire Bookstore
David and Caroline Brazier talk with Iain McNay about what drew them to Pure Land rather than to the Zen they trained in.
An interview on the Keen on Yoga channel about her path and practice.
Keen on Yoga
A conversation on years of monastic training in Japan and on what a Zen monk does with ordinary life afterwards.
Zubin
An hour and a half with Jon Joseph Roshi on fifty years of practice, on ritual, and on balancing darkness and light.
Looking back over six decades, from engineering drawings to Yonkers.
Zen Peacemakers
Nicole Baden is interviewed at length about her path and her teaching as a Zen teacher.
Simplicity Zen
An interview on why the winds-and-channels practices come first in the Bön meditation school he leads.
Ligmincha International
Cynthia Jurs, author of Summoned by the Earth, on shifting from trauma culture to initiation culture.
Accidental Gods — The Thrutopian Podcast
An interview on what the Sakya lineage carries and how it is passed on now.
Descoperă Budismul
Tias Little discusses the practice of deep listening in the body and in teaching, in a long conversation on the yogahub podcast.
yogahub
Jeffrey Mishlove asks him what actually happens to a person in a religious experience.
Thinking Allowed
A long conversation on holding contemplative practice and public life together, rather than treating one as a retreat from the other.
Seeding the Mystery
An interview by Iain McNay for Conscious TV.
Prajwal Ratna Vajracharya on the Newar Vajracharya priesthood he was born into, and on bringing its sacred dance out of the temple.
In conversation with Commonweal's Michael Lerner, Harada Roshi discusses the Buddhist path and performs a calligraphy demonstration, his Japanese remarks interpreted into English by his longtime translator.
The New School at Commonweal
An introduction to her path: a German-born nun who completed the full monastic curriculum in Dharamsala.
Tias Little discusses the subtle body and his interdisciplinary approach to yoga practice on the Embodied Philosophy CHITHEADS series.
Embodied Philosophy
Dr. Nida Chenagtsang discusses Tibetan healing massage and his book of the same name.
Ty Powers talks with Scott Johnson about equity, and about how meditation and yoga practice meet questions of fairness and difference.
Stillpoint Yoga London
Three minutes, answered without a single technical term.
Loyola Productions Munich
A long conversation about charya nritya, the dance as meditation, and what happens to the dancer during it.
The Spiritual Context Podcast
A conversation about work, enough, and what people expect retirement to solve.
Buddhistdoor Global
A conversation about choosing what to give your attention and effort to when more needs doing than one life can hold.
Voices of Emergence
A Harvard student asks the obvious objection to compassion, and gets a straight answer.
Khenpo Sodargye's Teachings
David Loy discusses modern Buddhism in a wide-ranging conversation with Wisdom Publications.
Wisdom Publications
Tias Little explores how yogic practices align with a modern understanding of the body and brain, in an interview with YogaUOnline.
YogaUOnline
A long interview with the Polish Soto priest on awakening, the absence of a fixed self, and what remains when the story about oneself stops.
A podcast interview on ordination, koan work and the practical shape of a Zen priest's day.
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