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Following on from last week’s launch of the site in German, we are delighted today to announce that we’re able to extend our service further with the launch of our new Chinese language site - 免费 佛教 录音

This is the product of many hours of effort by various folk connected with Free Buddhist Audio, but none so much as Ruan Yinhua, our extraordinarily generous, talented and patient Chinese translator. Yinhua’s unflagging commitment to the project has been inspiring from the very start, and we are doubly happy to be able to mark the successful launch of the Chinese service by posting his very thoughtful essay My Perspective on the Revival of Buddhism and Spirituality in China.

Sadhu, Yinhua!

Watch this space for imminent announcements regarding the site in French and Spanish!

We’ve now posted an initial version of Sangharakshita’s very latest talk: ‘Looking Back - and Forward’. With many thanks to our good friends at Clear Vision for all their help preparing this recording. If you’ve never heard him before - and just to put this in context - the first talk we have in our archive by Sangharakshita was given in 1965! And here we are, 40+ years on and still going strong… Amazing!

Today we are officially launching the site in German - Audio Buddhismus Kostenlos. It’s been a bit of a wait, but we are now ready and delighted to welcome all our German-speaking friends on board. As it happens, we have relatively few talks in German itself, so any ideas for contributions to the archive would be gratefully received! Meanwhile, our heartfelt thanks go out to Harald Eckhoff, who has worked at this with us in a most heroic and generous-spirited way for many months.

Watch this space for imminent announcements regarding the site in Chinese, French and Spanish!