COVID-19 in Myanmar: Sheltering At Home
Welcome to the fifth episode in our ongoing “COVID-19 in Myanmar” series, called “Sheltering in Place.” While the previous show told the stories of four expats who left just before the world closed do...
17 Juli 20201h 37min
COVID-19 in Myanmar: Exiled Expats Edition
How has the coronavirus pandemic impacted foreign meditators in Myanmar? This is precisely the question we set out to answer in this “Expats in Exile Edition” of our COVID-19 in Myanmar series.The gue...
4 Juli 20201h 55min
Myanmar Dhamma Diaries: Empathy for the Executioners
In 2017, Zach Hessler, then known as U Obhasa, was a forest monk in upper Myanmar. Following in the tradition of monks during the Buddha's time, one day he set out from his forest monastery on foot to...
26 Juni 20201h 38min
COVID-19 in Myanmar: Monastic Edition
How is the coronavirus pandemic impacting monastics in Myanmar? This is precisely the question we set out to answer in this very special “Monastic Edition” of our COVID-19 in Myanmar series. The guest...
16 Juni 20202h 4min
COVID-19 in Myanmar: Women's Edition
In the second installment of our ongoing COVID-19 in Myanmar series, we present the Women’s Edition. So often at times of crisis and at key moments in world events, it is the voices of men who make th...
10 Juni 20201h 34min
COVID-19 in Myanmar: Burmese Edition
In this inaugural episode of our ongoing "COVID-19 in Myanmar" series, we present the Burmese Edition, where we hear from the four local voices who present their perspectives on the ongoing coronaviru...
29 Maj 20201h 29min
Myanmar Dhamma Diaries: Sobering Up in Ingyinbin
In this inaugural edition of the “Myanmar Dhamma Diaries,” Joah tells the story of an alcoholic Airbnb guest from Europe who disrupts his Yangon home. Learning that the guest had chosen to stay there ...
8 Maj 20201h 23min
Swe Win
Swe Win’s journey has taken him from a love of British literature to the pits of solitary confinement in Insein Prison in Yangon, where he escaped harsh conditions and toxic anger by taking up a medit...
27 Apr 20202h 28min
