Buddhism broadcasts

I came across some free Buddhist related recording on iTunes. One is a segment from the PRI program To the Best of Our Knowledge. It's part of the East Meets West series and is titled Dharma Days, Yoga Nights. The fist segment is a thoroughly annoying interview with the thoroughly annoying author of Eat, Love, Pray. Basically I'm very much turned off by people who persue a spiritual path and then run around telling everybody about what they have experienced, that's a major sign that they haven't actually gone anywhere, no matter how many clicks they log. I would recommend Cave in the Snow if you are interested in a memoir about following the Buddhist path from a Western female perspective, it's written by Tenzin Palmo who was one of the early Westerners to travel to Tibet. But there is a pretty interesting piece on Dharma Punx, the story of Noah Levine. I think most Western Buddhists will already understand the connection between Punk and Buddhist thought it. That is if you know that punk is not about wearing mohawks and Buddhism is not about smiling all day.

The other thing I stumbled upon is a course at Berkeley, Psychology 107: Buddhist Psychology, taught by Eleanor H. ROSCH. There are now 2 tracks available and if you can get past the banter about being registered for the course, I think she will eventually get to some interesting topics. The couse doesn't assume you have a good understanding of the different schools of Buddhism, which I think is a bit disappointing. I could imagine it would be useful to make Intro to Buddhist History a prerequisite course instead of trying to give a brief history lesson and psychology lesson at once. But I guess the course is geared towards Psych majors and not Religion students.

Anyroad, the last thing to mention is that iTunes has an amazing amount of material freely available, and I don't just mean music podcasts. Check out iTunes U on the frontpage left-side menu. You can find lectures from many universities.