Founder Ravi Mishra hopes his new app, Awaken, will help meditators examine social issues. A new Buddhist app offering contemplations and guided meditations on social justice is now available in the App Store. Awaken, created by Ravi Mishra, offers meditation instructions to help users explore social issues like race and gender. Content in the app is sorted into individual [...]
Acer announces “smart prayer beads” to digitally count mantra recitations
Electronic malas will track mantra recitations in a phone app, tallying "merit" that can be shared on social media. The Taiwanese electronics corporation, Acer, has developed Buddhist prayer beads to help keep track of recited mantras. Acer's "Leap Beads" contain a smart chip that displays the number of recited mantras on the user's smartphone, and turns repetitions [...]
Dalai Lama launches iPhone app to share news and teachings
The free app includes news, videos, photos, livestreams, and details on the Dalai Lama's global travels. You no longer have to be one of his 16.6 million Twitter followers to keep digital tabs on the Dalai Lama. The Office of His Holiness has launched an official app that allows practitioners to follow his activities, travels, and teachings. The free iPhone app includes [...]
How do you text “I’m meditating”?
How do you say "I'm busy developing insight into the nature of mind," in a text? Soon, you'll be able to say it the same way it seems everything is communicated in 2017: with an emoji. For World Emoji Day on Monday, Apple released a preview of its forthcoming emojis, including a meditator emoji. Predicts my colleague, LionsRoar.com assistant editor Lilly Greenblatt, "This is [...]
15 Buddhist Apps to Help Recognize You Don’t Really Need a Buddhist iPhone App
Sam Littlefair learns why there are so few Buddhist apps and how — even if they're not totally necessary — they might help you on your spiritual journey. I select Stop, Breathe & Think on my iPad, and the app opens to a friendly drawing of a meditator, next to a large “Begin” button, which I tap. I’m swept into my guided meditation. Close your eyes, reads the next [...]
