Can we expect a SutraPod?
Orthodox Jews learn a version of the Talmud via ShasPod, a 20GB iPod that comes packed with the Talmud, an ancient Jewish oral law text. The DafYomi is a seven and a half year cycle of Talmudic learning that culminates in a conference and celebration at Madison Square Garden, called the Shiyum HaShas.
To study and prepare, until today, one had to handle a 2,711 page text, or manipulate 2,000 tape cassettes in and out of your Walkman. Now an entrepeneur has pre-recorded lectures on the Talmud into an iPod, which he sells at www.shaspod.com, and one can learn the text conveniently through your earbuds on the commuter train or while walking to school.
Can we look forward to a 40GB SutraPod, that would come loaded with the entire Avatamsaka Sutra?
Would this be a project for BTTS?
Posted by: res | March 18, 2005 at 09:31 AM
Dear DM Heng Sure,
until now I had considered an iPod to be an absolute luxury that a father of two could not indulge with a clear conscience. Last year I had actually bought a cheap Sony ATRAC3/MP3/CD discman as a substitute at 1/8th the cost.
For some reason, downloading the Avatamsaka lectures is not easy from London. But if they were on iPod, that would be something to seriously consider.
A cheaper alternative might be the availablity via mail order of the entire suite in MP3 format files but on a single DVD ROM or multiple CD ROMs. One advantage would be that a larger audience could be reached.
Amithaba.
Posted by: Richard Au | April 01, 2005 at 07:23 AM
What a coincidence! In advance of a long trip to rural China, I came to this site expressly looking for audio files of Sutra lectures to put on my iPod. Am I not looking in the right places or does this site not offer downloads of complete lecture series and text files of sutra translations? I hope that you do, or have the plans and means to do so.
Posted by: Jann Ronis | April 15, 2005 at 01:40 AM