40 Best Buddhist Podcasts

1. Buddhist Society of Western Australia

Dharma talks from the tradition of Buddhist meditation master Ajahn Brahm and Australian Forest Sangha of monks and nuns presented by the Buddhist Society of Western Australia
podcast.bswa.org
Facebook Followers 3.1KTwitter Followers 962 Frequency 1 episode / day Avg Length 73 min Play Get Email Contact

2. Insight Myanmar

We stand by the Burmese people in their quest for democracy and freedom. Listen to our podcasts to hear from activists, artists, leaders, monastics, fighters, authors, and more to learn more about what's really happening in Myanmar.
podcasts.apple.com
Facebook Followers 111.8KInstagram Followers 6.5K Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 107 min Play Get Email Contact

3. Daily Wisdom - Walking The Path with The Buddha

Welcome to 'Daily Wisdom - Walking The Path with The Buddha'. A Podcast shared by David Roylance.This podcast is dedicated to guiding you to completely eliminate the discontent mind and the suffering it causes by attaining Enlightenment. Learn and practice the teachings of Gotama Buddha that will guide you to fully attain a peaceful, calm, serene, and content mind with joy.
podcasters.spotify.com
Twitter Followers 16Instagram Followers 365 Frequency 2 episodes / week Avg Length 84 min Since Feb 2020 Play Get Email Contact

4. Tricycle Talks

The Buddhist Review is the independent voice of Buddhism in the West. It is to create forums for exploring contemporary and historic Buddhist activity, examine the impact of its new context in the democratic traditions of the West, and introduce fresh views and attainable methods for enlightened living to the culture at large. Tricycle is an independent foundation unaffiliated with any one lineage or sect.
tricycle.org
Facebook Followers 166.8KTwitter Followers 67.6KInstagram Followers 64.1K Frequency 1 episode / day Avg Length 54 min Play Get Email Contact

5. Buddhist Geeks

The purpose of Buddhist Geeks is understood as an active exploration of Dharma in the Age of the Network. The Buddhist Geeks also portrays virtual practice & community forms, including the Buddhist Geeks Life Retreat and Buddhist Geeks Dojo.
art19.com
Facebook Followers 63.3KTwitter Followers 71.9K Frequency 1 episode / month Avg Length 41 min Since Jan 2007 Play Get Email Contact

6. Village Zendo Teacher Talks

Dharma talks on Zen Buddhism from the Village Zendo in New York City.
villagezendo.org
Facebook Followers 2.6KTwitter Followers 4.4KInstagram Followers 1K Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 26 min Since Mar 2013 Play Get Email Contact

7. The Wisdom Podcast

The Wisdom Podcast is a Buddhist podcast that features interviews with leading thinkers from the Buddhist world. Each episode takes you on a fascinating exploration of Buddhism and meditation as our guests share stories and discuss life-changing practices, timeless philosophies, and new ways to think and live. This website will help you find and engage with the teachers, teachings, and practices for developing a deeper, wiser relationship with your mind, your life, and the world.
wisdomexperience.org
Facebook Followers 73.4KTwitter Followers 18.4KInstagram Followers 13.2K Frequency 1 episode / month Avg Length 61 min Since Sep 2015 Play Get Email Contact

8. Dakini Conversations

Interview and talks channel hosted by Adele Tomlin, writer and Tibetan Buddhist scholar-translator-practitioner and founder of Dakini Translations.
podcasters.spotify.com
Facebook Followers 16.7KInstagram Followers 1K Frequency 1 episode / quarter Avg Length 86 min Play Get Email Contact

9. Amaravati Podcast

These are the latest Dhamma Talks given mainly in the Amaravati Temple during the Wan Phras . These talks include those given during the Winter Retreat, Rains / Vassa retreat and the rest of the year.
amaravati.org
Facebook Followers 4K Frequency 3 episodes / month Avg Length 48 min Play Get Email Contact

10. Buddhist Temple of Toledo Podcast

The Buddhist Temple of Toledo is a Soto Zen Buddhist community with the Harada-Yasutani koan introspection tradition offering intensive Zen meditation training and a family-friend neighbourhood sangha. Weekly podcasts include sutras, Zen meditation, dharma talks, and interviews with transmitted teachers.
thedrinkinggourd.org
Facebook Followers 4.8K Frequency 2 episodes / week Avg Length 38 min Since Oct 2007 Play Get Email Contact

11. Berkeley Zen Center

Lectures, talks, and classes on Zen Buddhism from Shogakuji Temple, Berkeley Zen Center, in Berkeley, California, USA. Introductory classes and training are offered for new people, as well as weekly classes on Buddhist subjects year round.
berkeleyzencenter.org
Facebook Followers 1K Frequency 2 episodes / month Avg Length 58 min Play Get Email Contact

12. Buddhist Wisdom, Modern Life

Claire Villarreal brings you teachings, interviews, and guided meditations to bring the ancient insights of Buddhism into our fast-paced modern world. You'll learn about Buddhist basics (like the Four Noble Truths and buddha nature), then apply what you're learning with guided meditations. Plus every so often there's an episode just for fun, like learning about the Buddhist idea of awakening with a 'commentary' on The Matrix.
podcasters.spotify.com
Facebook Followers 562Twitter Followers 139 Frequency 13 episodes / year Avg Length 27 min Play Get Email Contact

13. Secular Buddhism

Noah Rasheta is a Buddhist teacher, lay minister, and author, as well as the host of the podcast Secular Buddhism. He teaches mindfulness and Buddhist philosophy online and in workshops all around the world. He works with others to make the world a better place as he studies, embodies, and teaches the fundamentals of Buddhist philosophy, integrating Buddhist teachings with modern science, humanism, and humor.
secularbuddhism.com
Facebook Followers 91.6KTwitter Followers 3.8KInstagram Followers 10.2K Frequency 1 episode / month Avg Length 23 min Play Get Email Contact

14. Becoming Buddha

Dhamma talks on the direct teachings of the Buddha as preserved in the Pali Canon. These are audio recordings of the weekly classes from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown New Jersy on the direct teachings on the Buddha.
becoming-buddha.com
Frequency 21 episodes / quarter Avg Length 57 min Since Dec 2017 Play Get Email Contact

15. Blue Lotus Buddhist Temple Podcast

Welcome to The Blue Lotus Buddhist Temple and Meditation Center The Blue Lotus is a community temple located just off the town square in Woodstock, Illinois, an hour north-west of Chicago! We welcome all people and faith traditions to practice meditation, learn about Buddhism and share in community together.
bluelotustemple.org
Facebook Followers 12.1KTwitter Followers 378 Frequency 11 episodes / quarter Avg Length 50 min Since Aug 2010 Play Get Email Contact

16. Rime Buddhist Center | Achieving Peace Through Compassion

The Rime Buddhist Center is a non-sectarian center dedicated to the cultivation of wisdom and compassion. The Center's primary objective is to provide a qualified program of Buddhist studies and Tibetan culture taught by monks, lamas and other Tibetan teachers, and to promote a harmonious relationship of understanding between both Tibetans and Westerners.
rimecenter.org
Facebook Followers 4.4KTwitter Followers 557Instagram Followers 959 Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 18 min Since Jan 2019 Play Get Email Contact

17. Buddhist Boot Camp Podcast

Timber Hawkeye, bestselling author of Buddhist Boot Camp and Faithfully Religionless, offers a secular approach to being at peace with the world, both within and around us. The intention is to awaken, enlighten, enrich and inspire.
buddhistbootcamp.com
Twitter Followers 7.4KInstagram Followers 65.7K Frequency 1 episode / month Avg Length 6 min Play Get Email Contact

18. Tibetan Buddhism | The Elegant Mind

This podcast site contains timely discussions and interviews from the Pacific Northwest concerning practical notions and methodologies for all regardless of the level of experience or knowledge who are curious, interested or an ongoing student/practitioner of Himalayan (aka Tibetan) Buddhism.
chenrezigproject.podbean.com
Facebook Followers 311Twitter Followers 21 Frequency 1 episode / quarter Avg Length 15 min Since May 2018 Play Get Email Contact

19. Scott Tusa Podcast

Scott Tusa is a Buddhist teacher based in Brooklyn, New York. He teaches meditation and Buddhist psychology nationally.
scotttusa.com
Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 26 min Since Jul 2017 Play Get Email Contact

20. Yokoji Zen Dharma Talks

Yokoji is a year-round Zen Buddhist Training Center in the Southern Californian mountains. This podcast is a monthly Dharma talks by Tenshin Fletcher Roshi at Yokoji-Zen Mountain Center.
zmc.org/podcast
Facebook Followers 2.6K Frequency 1 episode / day Avg Length 64 min Since Oct 2014 Play Get Email Contact

21. The Zen Studies Podcast

These episodes are in a series, starting with ancient India at the time of Shakyamuni Buddha and continuing up until the present day. The series covers all areas where Buddhism has taken a significant hold and these episodes cover older (pre-Zen) or more general Buddhist teachings (not specific to a sect or school).
zenstudiespodcast.com
Frequency 2 episodes / month Avg Length 31 min Since Apr 2017 Play Get Email Contact

22. Open Question

Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel is a Western woman Buddhist teacher, author, and practitioner who helps demystify some of the most common misconceptions about Buddhist teachings and practice.
middlewayinitiative.org
Facebook Followers 8.1KTwitter Followers 2KInstagram Followers 2.7K Frequency 1 episode / quarter Get Email Contact

23. The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast

Integrating Buddhism and the 12 Steps of recovery from any addiction, techniques, principles, tips, meditations. For more updates on these, follow us.
the12stepbuddhist.libsyn.com
Twitter Followers 4.6K Frequency 1 episode / month Avg Length 25 min Since Jul 2008 Play Get Email Contact

24. Buddhism Guide

Karma Yeshe Rabgye is a Western Monk in the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Originally from England, he now lives in Northern India. He now offers teachings freely to all in a manner that is unpretentious and clear. He does not demand students to blindly accept what he says, but instead invites them to examine their own minds and experiences to discover the validity of Gautama Buddha's teachings.
yesherabgye.com
Facebook Followers 10.8KTwitter Followers 1.1KInstagram Followers 10.8K Frequency 2 episodes / quarter Avg Length 18 min Play Get Email Contact

25. Handful of Leaves | Mindfulness & Buddhism in Everyday Life

Delivering practical wisdom for a happier life. A Buddhist podcast that explores how to navigate the daily complexities of life relating to topics such as ambition, personal finance, relationships, etc.
handfulofleaves.life
Facebook Followers 626Instagram Followers 1.2K Frequency 1 episode / month Avg Length 33 min Play Get Email Contact

26. Muddy Path

The intersection of Zen Buddhism and ancient wisdom, philosophy, and psychology.The goal is to help you get closer to love, happiness, and peace and to alleviate suffering.Monthly themes with dharma talks, meditation, creative expression & solution-based strategies.An integrated experience, combining science and Thich Nhat Hanhs' Plum Village Tradition. Michele Paiva is the founder of Breathe Sangha within Plum Village. Visit MuddyPath.org for a free pdf self-healing planner. Visit MuddyPath.Org
spreaker.com
Facebook Followers 2.4K Frequency 6 episodes / year Avg Length 16 min Play Get Email Contact

27. Thich Nhat Hanh Dharma Talks

Dharma talks from the Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. One of the best known and most respected Zen masters in the world today, poet, and peace and human rights activist, Thich Nhat Hanh has led an extraordinary life.
tnhaudio.org
Facebook Followers 2.1MTwitter Followers 489.9K Since Nov 2009 Play Get Email Contact

28. Selected Talks on Buddhism and Meditation by the Karmapa

The Gyalwang Karmapa is the head of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism and a guide to millions of buddhists around the world. This podcast is dedicated to bringing you selected teachings and talks on buddhist philosophy, meditation, the environment, happiness and much more. Subscribe in iTunes to be notified of new releases.
kagyuoffice.org
Facebook Followers 833KTwitter Followers 25.9KInstagram Followers 11.2K Play Get Email Contact

29. A Buddhist Podcast

This Podcast is a free show about the Buddhism of Nichiren Daishonin. Jason and Karen are members of the Soka Gakkai. Every two weeks they take a Buddhist study point and do their best to make it easy to understand and of use to anyone who listens. Practical Buddhism for living in the 21st Century, not beside a remote lake or mountainside but in the midst of daily life, with a job to do, a house to run and children to raise.
abuddhistpodcast.com
Facebook Followers 835Twitter Followers 1.1K Frequency 2 episodes / year Avg Length 70 min Since Nov 2005 Play Get Email Contact

30. Dharmaseed

Dharma Seed is an online resource dedicated to making the Buddhist teachings of Insight Meditation and associated practices available to all. Our intention is to be a support for meditation teachers, their communities, students and meditation practitioners, and to provide access to the teachings to those who might not otherwise have access to them.
dharmaseed.org
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31. Dawn Mountain

At Dawn Mountain we strive to inspire seekers to develop skills for living, including mindfulness and compassion to instruct new and advanced students in the contemplative, artistic and healing practices of Tibetan Buddhism in collaboration with Western and Asian teachers to support living Buddhist culture in Asia
blubrry.com
Facebook Followers 2.6KTwitter Followers 319 Since Dec 2013 Play Get Email Contact

32. The Secular Buddhist

The Secular Buddhist Association is a grass-roots driven effort to answer the needs of this teaching and practice for contemporary society. The SBA recognizes that the rich cultural setting of traditional Buddhism is wonderful in its own right, and that there is an opportunity for it to evolve in ways more suited to other cultural contexts as well.
secularbuddhism.org
Facebook Followers 15KTwitter Followers 3.7K Since May 2009 Play Get Email Contact

33. Buddhist Writings by Various

An anthology of Buddhist scriptures, appropriate as an introduction to its vast literature, or as a sampler for those who want to better understand Buddhism. The selections in this anthology are primarily from the Theravada school of Buddhism.
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34. Manchester Buddhist Centre talks

Manchester Buddhist Centre welcomes everyone to explore Buddhism, learn meditation and much more. The Centre also houses Body­wise, Breath­works and Earth Cafe, provid­ing ser­vices that feed body and mind.
manchesterbuddhistcentre.org.uk
Facebook Followers 5.4KTwitter Followers 1.2KInstagram Followers 2.4K Frequency 3 episodes / year Since Mar 2012 Get Email Contact

35. Dharma Realm

The DharmaRealm is an occasional podcast conversation between Harry Gyokyo Bridge, resident minister of the Buddhist Church of Oakland, and Scott Mitchell, Dean of the Institute of Buddhist Studies, about Jodo Shinshu Buddhism, Buddhism in the modern world, pop-culture, music, sci-fi and how all those things are related.
dharmarealm.com
Facebook Followers 1.5KTwitter Followers 640 Since Mar 2008 Play Get Email Contact

36. The Meaningful Life with George Haas Podcast

Welcome to The Meaningful Life with George Haas Podcast (formerly the Deepening Your Practice Podcast). Each episode will explore the connections between ancient Buddhist meditation techniques and modern psychological attachment theory. Learn the Mettagroup techniques which serve as a model of how to connect with other people, and how to be completely yourself in relationships with others and with work.
mettagroup.org
Facebook Followers 4.3KTwitter Followers 389Instagram Followers 1.3K Play Get Email Contact

37. BuddhaPod

BuddhaPod is a weekly podcast discussing the Dharma in the context of 21st Century America. Co-hosted by two college students, the program brings a fresh perspective to the teachings and shares Buddhism with those at formative stage in their lives.
buddhapod.org
Facebook Followers 153 Since May 2018 Play Get Email Contact

38. Backyard Buddha

The Backyard Buddha Podcast is hosted by Alan Childs. He is a Buddhist teacher, certified Mindfulness and Meditation teacher, Buddhist Lay Minister in training and a practitioner of Soto Zen.
backyardbuddha.org
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