Dharma Seed

Dharma Seed

About this app

Stream dharma talks from the Dharma Seed archive to your Android device.

Dharma Seed is dedicated to preserving and sharing the spoken teachings of Theravada Buddhism in modern languages.

Features:

• Stream dharma talks
• Find the most recent talks
• Search talk titles and descriptions by keyword
• Find talks by specific teachers
• Search a teacher's talks by keyword
• View teacher information

Notes:

• Access to retreatants only talks is not currently supported.

These talks are freely offered in the spirit of dana, or generosity. You may visit the Dharma Seed website if you would like to support our work. We are a small non-profit organization supported solely through donations and we deeply appreciate your help in making these priceless teachings available to all.

Operating since the early 1980's, Dharma Seed collects and distributes dharma talks by teachers transmitting the Vipassana or Insight practices of Theravada Buddhism, the oldest Buddhist tradition still actively pursued in the 21st century.

We hope you enjoy the app.

May all beings be happy.

Source code for this app is available at https://github.com/dharmaseed/dharmaseed-android. Bug reports and contributions are welcome!

Ratings and reviews

For content, this app is amazing. Unfortunately the app is badly designed and cumbersome to use. For example there is no way to sort the talks. Some of the speakers have several thousand: if you want to start at the beginning you literally have to scroll through several thousand talks to get to talk 1. If you hit the back button from a talks collection, the list of speakers defaults back to "A". Even if you were at "Z". It does this every time you click on a speaker!.

A lovely range of talk, teachings and guided meditations from teachers, with new material uploaded every week from different centres. I find the search function useful so can look back in old talks (there's a lot on there) and download facility for listening when off line.

So happy the content is available! Wonderful to see. The app needs a way to navigate back to what's currently playing, however, so you can go back and pause it or maneuver the file. The control buttons are also very very small.

What’s new

Update to API level 35.