multimedia
Video Downloads
The video files are very high quality m4v encodings for use specifically on iPod/iPhone with video playback ability as well on other, similar devices. We have used the highest possible quality encoding which will play on the majority of these devices at this time, while in the future the quality will still be great on devices to come, which will only be getting better. The downloads will also play on your desktop computer with great quality even at full screen. You can convert them to other formats as desired. But with this quality you must realize the file sizes for download are quite large, and are therefore broken up into 1-hour parts each about 700MB.
The audio files
Audio files will be supplied in several formats to play online and to download.
About our multimedia
The Namgyal Audio-Visual Archive is pleased to offer downloads of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s teachings on Buddhism. The Namgyal Archive records and edits all of this material on site at Namgyal Monastery. The Namgyal Archive employs both English and Chinese translators of top quality who are constantly working to produce the best possible translations of these sacred discourses so as to benefit as many people as possible.
As translating these teachings accurately is a long and slow process, we also offer many recordings which are simply of the simultaneous translations given at by various people at the time of the teaching. These translations are of much inferior quality, as the translator is doing it at the same time as he hears the teaching, a hard task when you consider the complex nature of these teachings. But we firmly believe they are of benefit to the student of Buddhism so therefore we offer them for download.
We are working hard to constantly add new teachings so please check back often.