Welcome

This is the website of the Dutch Buddhist Broadcast Foundation. The BOS/BBF is the first independent Buddhist Broadcasting Foundation in the west to produce and broadcast buddhist programs within a country’s Public Broadcasting System.

Looking for the Dutch version?
Dutch-speaking visitors are advised to visit our Dutch website, boeddhistischeomroep.nl.

Watching programs online
Most of our tv programmes can be watched online. 
Requirements:
Windows users need Windows Media Player, mac users need the Flip4mac plugin. Content from before september 2006 is also available in real format.

Information about our radio broadcasts is only available in Dutch.

 

Su  7  Feb 12:00 - 12:30

BETWEEN BETTER AND WORSE

Su  24  Jan 12.00 - 13:00

TULKU Gesar Mukpo is a filmmaker who lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is the son of the great Tibetan Buddhist teacher, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Gesar reveals his own poignant story of living in the West with this unique label and legacy - endlessly scrutinized as someone supposed to be special and monumental. What does it mean to carry on a role designed for an old world when you’re living in a completely new one?

News: Director George Schouten at the Sun Valley Spiritual Film Festival
The Film Lucia Rijker - A Boxer, a Buddhist by director George Schouten will screen this year at the Sun Valley Spiritual Film Festival in Idaho in the U.S. which is held September 18-20.

George Schouten started his career as an experimental filmmaker. Later on he made three feature films and for more than 20 years he mainly worked for the Dutch television station VPRO. In the past 9  years he has also made many documentaries for the Buddhist Broadcast 
Foundation (BOS).

A small selection of his work for the BOS:

• The Dedication of Matthieu Ricard (2008)
• Lucia Rijker - a boxer, a Buddhist (2007)
• The Diamond, The Teacher and his students (2006)
• My Life Is My Message, Zen Teacher Thich Nhat Hahn (2005)
• Buddha as a Book (2005)
• Home Street Home - Zen Master Bernie Glassman (2003)