Buddhism Online - Buddhist Geeks

[Roland]

It seems Buddhist Geeks, the guys producing the famous podcast but also running the BG community on Google+, had no success in getting enough revenues in order to finance the team. They announced the community will stay up for the next few months but they prepare a new project, BG Dojo.

http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=321bbbb5b3e1bdb4fa717afa0&id=25f35a5318&e=34f0250f49

One of the issues they mention is the fact that the community primarily engages in peer2peer learning, which means that qualified but also unqualified people 'teach' - which causes legal problems and increases their overhead even more.

It will be interesting to see how BG Dojo will try to solve this.

[Jundo]

Thank you for the information, Roland.

I am a fan of many of their Podcasts (I was one) ...

http://www.buddhistgeeks.com/2007/12/bg-053-virtual-zen-dropping-here-and-there/

... and I am sorry to hear that. But I have also had some questions, as what they are teaching there now seems primarily to focus on the "Intergral" movement (which the blogger Mumon discussed in a series of posts awhile back).

http://mumonno.blogspot.jp/2013/08/on-buddhist-geekery-gravitas-and-ageism.html

http://mumonno.blogspot.jp/2013/09/more-on-cultural-provincialism-of.html

However, I hope they work things out.


Gassho, Jundo

[Myosha]

Hello,

Thank you for the link.


Gassho,
Myosha

[Nengyo]

Their podcast are hit and miss to me. Not much middle ground. I will have to give your episode a listen Jundo!

One of the issues they mention is the fact that the community primarily engages in peer2peer learning, which means that qualified but also unqualified people 'teach' - which causes legal problems and increases their overhead even more.

This is a problem all over the internet on forums far and wide. That's why I just send people here if they have questions and why I have this as my facebook cover:

[Kokuu]

Thank you for the information, Roland. I have found some of their podcasts useful in the past but, like Jundo, have wondered about their direction. I am not a huge fan of Integral Theory or the people who teach it and find it adds little to Buddhism.

In any case, I wish them well for the future. This kind of online teaching is undoubtedly a work in progress and it may take a few tries before organisations hit on a model which works both financially and for the mutual benefit of all involved.

Gassho
Andy