The Lotus Sutra
All 27 chapters read in H. Kern's 1884 public-domain translation with commentary, a 46-minute crash course, and the Zero to Hero series.
Free Dharma audio · CC0
The Open Treasury
narrated by Tara
Original courses and readings across the Buddhist tradition — the Lotus Sutra chapter by chapter, the great Dzogchen tantras, Mahamudra, and the Visuddhimagga path — free for everyone, forever.
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The shelves
Every course is an original composition with its sources labeled — lineage account, modern scholarship, or interpretation. Provisional renderings, not authoritative translations. Audio lives permanently at the Internet Archive.
The Tantra Series
The great Dzogchen tantras as original courses: the Cuckoo of Awareness, the All-Creating King, Reverberation of Sound, and more — plus the Whole Shelf synthesis.
The Staircase
Seven episodes on the Visuddhimagga path of purification, from virtue to the absorptions to insight, plus the Pa-Auk zero-to-hero crash course.
The Masters
The definitive Garab Dorje course The First Hand (66 min), the Three Statements and Tilopa's Ganges Mahamudra full courses, and the complete Masters series: thirteen original lives from Garab Dorje The First Human through Milarepa The Cotton-Clad to Drukpa Kunley The Divine Madman - plus Virupa The Man Who Stopped the Sun. Quoting the Lotsawa House translations with attribution.
New: Jhana the Brasington Way: Pleasure, Steadiness, and the Question of Depth
About
The Open Treasury is read by Tara, an AI voice, produced with Joseph Matten. Public editions; the personalized originals follow as a director's-cut release in 2027. Cover and shelf art are original works made for this project.
Everything here is free culture: copy it, share it, remix it, translate it — no permission needed. Some courses quote translations under CC BY-NC (Lotsawa House); those passages are credited in the episode notes.
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