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Passage to India

What if we stopped saving our dream journey for “one day” and booked it now? Wander Woman Phoebe Smith hits pause on the grind and takes a micro‑retirement across North India by rail—soaking in Kolkata’s dawn ferry music, the riot of colour at the flower market, and the earthy taste of chai, before…

Vivekachudamani 36 Anamaya Kosha: The Outermost Sheath - By Swami Tattwamayananda

151st verse: “A lake has pure water underneath but is covered by moss, grass and leaves at the top. The pure water is hidden. Similarly, our true nature stays hidden by five sheaths. The five sheaths are: Anamaya Kosha, Pranamaya Kosha, Manomaya Kosha, Vijnanamaya Kosha and Anandamaya Kosha.”153rd …

Once Upon A Time - The Story of Buddha

The story of Siddhartha Gautama is a journey from the peak of worldly luxury to the height of spiritual liberation. It is the narrative of a man who realized that true peace is found not by changing one’s external environment, but by mastering one’s internal state. Born in the 6th century BCE in L…

144 | The Ghost In My Body with Author Haresh Patel

Can artificial intelligence help uncover what short medical appointments and isolated symptom checkers often miss? Haresh Patel joins Dr. Michael Haley to explore the mind-body connection, root-cause healthcare, and why a patient’s complete life story may contain important clues about chronic illne…

Episode 4: Bihar — Where Civilisation Began

Before Rome was a city, there was Pataliputra. The Greek ambassador Megasthenes visited it in the 3rd century BCE and declared it the largest, most magnificent city on Earth. It was the capital of the Mauryan Empire — the first to unite the Indian subcontinent — governed by Ashoka the Great, whose …

Sacred Grounds Contested

Episode #570: The AAS Conference in Vancouver brought together thousands of scholars and practitioners from around the world, creating a dense, fast-moving environment of panels, conversations, and informal exchange across the full breadth of Asian studies. Within that wider landscape, Burma surfac…

Missing, Presumed Extinct

Episode #588: Historian Douglas Ober began questioning the standard history of Indian Buddhism while traveling to Bodh Gaya, Sarnath, and other sacred sites in his twenties. The dates he found on buildings and inscriptions did not fit the familiar sequence in which Buddhism vanished, European schol…

Like Winning the Lottery

How do you liberate yourself and others from constant suffering? You use this precious human body to cherish others more than yourself. That’s the method, that’s the practice, that’s the solution. -Lama Zopa Rinpoche Lama Zopa Rinpoche reminds us that being born into this precious human body aff…

Question & Answer #207: from the Mulamadhyamaka Karika to What to Do in Bodh Gaya

My apologies to Rui for overlooking his question. It was on the list but somehow I scrolled right past it. It will be answered first on the next one, insh'allah. Questions include: my preferred translation of the Mulamadhyamaka Karika; why I didn’t want to master the Burmese language; Buddhist…

AJAHN MONEYYO | Pali Recitation: Buddha's Enlightenment to First Discourse | Vinaya Mahavagga 1. 1-6

Ajahn Moneyyo recites the first chapters of the Vinaya Piṭaka, Mahāvagga 1. 1. to 1.6. in the original Pali language. These passages are the oldest and most authentic record of the events from the Buddha's supreme awakening (Sammā-sambodhi) under the Bodhi Tree at Uruvela (now Bodh Gaya) near the …