CULTURAL EMERGENCY

3-9-2011

An interview with Christa Meindersma of the Prins Claus Fund on the publication of their innovative manual Cultural Emergency in Conflict and Disaster and the importance of culture in the survival of threatened communities.

FLOWERS FOR BUDDHA

16-7-2011

IMAGINATIONS OF TIBET

14-5-2011

An interview with Berthe Janssen of the University of Leiden on the different images of Tibet from a shangrila till a backward feudal society.

AGAINST THE STREAM

An interview with Frank Uyttebroeck on the Dutch 'Tegen de stroom in' sangha which is inspired by the American Dharma punx movement and the Engaged Buddhist movement.

BONPO BOOKS ON THE DEAD

9-4-2011

An interview with Henk Blezer on the Bonpo Book of the Dead.

26-2-2011

An interview with philosopher, furniture maker and cook Robert Keurntjes on his practice as private Buddhist inspired philospher-consultant.

DONAGH COLEMAN

An interview with movie director Donagh Coleman on his documentary Stone Pasrures and the Cashmere wool trade from the Himalayan highlands till the luxury shops of the West.

TOLSTOJ AND BUDDHA

8-1-2011

An interview with Otto Boele on Tolstoj and the influence of Buddhism on his life and ideas.

ADI ICHSAN

27-11-2010

An interview with Vipassana meditation teacher Adi Ichsan.

MAARTEN OLTHOF

16-10-2010

An interview with writer and traveller Maarten Olthof on his book 'Lopen in het voetspoor van de Boeddha ' (Walking in the footsteps of Buddha) about the Buddhist pelgrimage routes in India.

BUDDHISM IN INDONESIA PART 6

A reportage on the Balinese village Buda Keling, the center of Shiva Buddhism on the Indonesian Island Bali. The Shiva-Buddha priest trace their ancestry back to the kingdom of Majapahit that ruled for many centuries over large part of Indonesia and had Shiva Buddhism with intricate mixture of Hindu and Buddhist beliefs as its main religion.

BUDDHISM IN INDONESIA PART 5

31-7-2010

A reportage on the Boda Sasak on the Indonesian island of Lombok who since the 1960's have increasingly turned to Buddhism as a way to preserve their traditions and culture. A proces which was strengthened by the Suharto regime's policy of recognizng only five major religions and more or less forcing everyone to choose between the five of them. For the Boda Sasak themselves they see close parallels between their traditional religion and Buddhism tracing their history back to the Majapahit kingdom. Nowadays the traditional priests and the Buddhist monks perform than also the major rituals together..

BUDDHISM IN INDONESIA PART 4

A reportage on the Buddhist student organisation Hikmahbudhi and the Buddhist publishing house Ehipassiko.

BUDDHISM IN INDONESIA PART 3

17-7-2010

Reportage on the Zhenfo Zong Kasogatan Buddhist organisation, a fusion of the Kasogatan, a which aims at reviving the old tantrayana tradition of the period of the Borobudur and the former Sri Vijaya and Majapahit kingdoms and the Zenfo Zong, the true Buddha school of the Taiwanese monk Lu Sheng-yen with its own interpretation of Tibetan vajrayana Buddhism.

BUDDHISM IN INDONESIA PART 2

10-7-2010

Magabudhi is the largest Buddhist organisation in Indonesia. It follows the Theravada Buddhist ways and has been supported by the Thai, Burmese and Sri Lanka sangha and has nowadays temples and meditation centres all over Indonesia. In its accent on meditation, Buddhist moral values, involvement of the lay people and its less stress on rituals it resembles in many ways Western Theravada organisations.

BUDDHISM IN INDONESIA PART 1

3-7-2010

The Buddhist revival in Indonesia started in the colonial period in the 1930's on a smaal scale but really took off after independence in the 1950's and 1960's. All major Buddhist schools, Theravada, Mahayana, Zen en Vajrayana can be found in the country as well the homegrown Kasogatan and Tridharma schools each appealing to different groups within the Indonesian society from the Chinese minority to followers of Javanese spiritual movements, the Shiva-Buddhist of the Javanese mountains and Bali, ethnic minorities as the Boda Sasak and nationalists and intellectuals who wanted to revive the glorious period of the old Majapahit kingdom and monumemts as the Borobudur, the largest Buddhist monument in the world. In part 1 you will hear Ananda Suyono, one of the last surviving pioneers of the 1940's and 50's.

KING ZERO

26-6-2010

An interview with the King Zero, a monk who played an important role in the Saffran revolution in Burma and now lives in exile in Mae Sot in Thailand where he helps his fellow refugees and continues his opposition against the Burmese regime through The Best Friend organisation..

CHANGE YOUR MIND DAY

5-6-2010

Live broadcast from the change your mind day festival in Amsterdam.

LAMA GOVINDA

13-3-2010

Special on the German Tibetan Lama Govinda and his role in spreading Tibetan Buddhism to the West.

PHRA RATHA AND GENTLE HEART

27-2-2010

On the visit of the Thai monk Phra Ratha to Gentle Heart in Utrecht.

DEL SILENCIO

2-1-2010

Concert recording of the meditative avant garde music ensemble Del Silencio and guest shakuhachi player Ray Jin with a short interview of the ensemble members Frans Moussault, Oscar Cano and Ton Akkermans

BEAT AND BUDDHA

26-12-2009

A special on the American Beat writers and artists who introduced Buddhism into the popular culture of the era and are for a large part responsible for the sudden and quick spread of Buddhism in the West.

DORJE POTTERY

28-11-2009

An interview with Vladimir Radovic, better known as Dorje, a ceramist which has been inspired by the traditional Asian pottery.

ASHIN KOVINDA

31-10-2009

An interview with the young Burmese monk Ashin Kovinda on his role in the opposition against the Burmese regime.

PHRA MAHA CHAMREUN

17-10-2009

Since the death of Mettavihari the Thai temple in Landsmeer had been without a resident monk but finally after a long wrangle with the immigartin authorities a new monk has come to stay permanently in Amsterdam Phra Maha Chamreun.

LIGHT OF ASIA

3-10-2009

An interview with John Willemsen who translated parts of the Victorian bestseller Light of Asia by Edwin Arnold on the importance of this in 1879 published book on the life of Buddha.

HUAI TOM A BUDDHIST TOWN

15-8-2009

An interview with the Theravada monk Janput on his home town Huai Tom in Northern Thai where the mostly to the Karen minority belonging inhabitants follow the Buddhist precepts in their daily life as propagated by the founder of the town the charismatic monk Khuba Wong.

THE WHITE CHANNEL

1-8-2009

A reportage on the White Channel, a Buddhist community radio station in North Thailand.

Concert recording of Theo Loevendie and the Ziggurat Ensemble with as guest musician the Tuvinian shaman Nicolay Oorzhak.

ANI CHOYING DROLMA

18-7-2009

Recording of a solo concert by the Nepalese nun Ani Choying Drolma performing Buddhist religious songs and recitations. With a short interview.

CHO MU WIN

11-7-2009

Concert recording of the Burmese harpist and vocalist Cho Mu Win with her ensemble with a short interview.

HUONG THANH

4-7-2009

Concert recording and interview of the Vietnamese singer Huong Thanh and her ensemble.

SHIFU SHI YAN MING

30-5-2009

An interview with the Kung Fu monk Shifu Shi Yan Ming.

INTUITIVE AWARENESS

18-4-2009

An interview with Fred 'Pelon' van der Velden who recently published a translation of Ajahn Sumedho's Dhamma talks in Dutch as a form of Dhana, which means as a gift. An edition of 1000 books for free for whomever like to read it.

TIBET 50 YEARS OCCUPATION

4-4-2009

A special on 50 years occupation of Tibet with historical audio and interviews on this recent history in the media and the reception of the first Tibetans in the Netherlands in the early sixties.

An interview with Italian Tibetologist Marta Sernesi on the early history of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism and the importance of visions, trance and vajra songs

GHANDARA

29-11-2008

A special on the Ghandara period of around 2000 years ago and area with the same name in Northern Afghanistan and Pakistan which was once a center of Buddhist culture and learning on the occasion of a large exhibition dedicated to this subject in Bonn, Germany with among others the Austrian scientist Christian Luczanits.

22-11-2008

An interview with philosopher Andre van der Braak on his book the 'Religious after Religion'.

HUNGRY SPIRITS

8-11-2008

An interview with Lam Ngo on hungry spirits and the ancestors in Vietnamese society.

BUDDHA IN ASSAM 7

25-10-2008

A reportage on Brahmaputra temple in the capital of Assam Guwahati. Its a temple run by a former Chin or Moq freedom fighter who has become a monk and is famous for his astrological prowess. A temple which is a multicultural microcosmos in itself with an Aiton nun, Chakma samanera and an Arakan care taker who despite their different languages and cultures are united by their belief that they are the inheritors of Buddhist tradition which dates back to origin of Buddhism.

18-10-2008

A reportage on the Maha Bodhi Vihar, a Barua Buddhist temple in the industrial town of Dibrugarh in Assam. The Baruag are the 'original' Buddhist which according to their tradition are originally from Bihar, the area where Buddha first preached his religion and survived the resurgence of Hinduism and the Islamic occupation of India by fleeing to Assam and Bangla Desh. Maha Bodhi Vihar os niot only a temple but also an orphanage and an educational and medical centre for the poor.

BUDDHA IN ASSAM 5

11-10-2008

A reportage on the village of Dibong, a Singpho ethnic village close to the Burmese border which converted 100 years ago to Buddhism after the arrival of a Burmese monk in the area. It sets them apart from the large majority of the Singpho or Kachin across the border in Burma who have massively converted to Christianity since the start of the civil war in Burma almost 60 years ago.

BUDDHA IN ASSAM 4

4-10-2008