Subscribers become pilgrims. Pilgrims become members.
The retention layer. The Sangha is the moat — what no Hollywood studio can buy.
Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is the eternal law.
The Channels.
Eight onboarded. Fifty by Y2. One hundred fifty by Y3.
Royal Thai Monastery, Lumbini
The lead Theravada monastery at Lumbini, founded by the Thai royal household. Daily Pali chanting at dawn and dusk, broadcast worldwide via TPS × Bodhi TV.
The Mahabodhi · Bodh Gaya
The Mahabodhi Society's flagship monastery, adjacent to the Bodhi Tree. Founded by Anagarika Dharmapala. The site of the Buddha's enlightenment is broadcast live every day.
Mahabodhi Vihara · Sarnath
The Mahabodhi Society's Sarnath base, near the Deer Park where the Buddha gave his first sermon. The Mulagandhakuti Vihara is the centerpiece.
Ramagrama Stupa · Newar Sangha
The only undisturbed original Buddha relic stupa in existence. Custodial sangha operates under the Promised Land × Moksha Foundation 99-year lease.
Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling · Boudhanath
One of the most-respected Vajrayana monasteries in the Kathmandu Valley. The seat of Phakchok Rinpoche of the Tsikey Chokling lineage.
Peace Grove Nunnery · Lumbini
The first bhikkhuni community at Lumbini. Founded to revive full ordination for women in the Theravada tradition. 28 resident bhikkhunis.
Korean Jogye Order · Lumbini
The Korean Mahayana presence at Lumbini, in the lineage of the Korean Jogye Order — the country's largest Buddhist order. Templestay-trained.
Sri Lankan Mahabodhi · Lumbini
The Sri Lankan Mahabodhi Society's monastery in the Lumbini international zone. Hosts the daily evening Pali chanting attended by all Lumbini pilgrims.
Open. Member. Pilgrim Circle.
Anyone with the app. Lifetime retention measured in years, not months.
The widest ring. No subscription required. The daily Dhammapada verse delivered before sunrise. A free meditation library. The pilgrim diary, the community chat by language and tradition, free access to twenty percent of all content.
- Daily Dhammapada verse — 247 shipped so far
- Free meditation library — 24 guided sits
- Community chat by language and tradition
- Pilgrim diary
- Free access to 20% of all content
- Optional dana to a designated monastery
The full library. All seasons of all series. Live darshan from every channel.
The default tier. The full content library — every season of every series, every Jataka tale, every master teaching, every Circuit Story. All advanced meditation programs. Monastery channel pages with live darshan streams from the Mayadevi Temple, the Bodhi tree, the Tooth Temple, the Mahabodhi Temple. Member-only commerce discounts (15%). Member-tier retreat pricing.
- Full content library — every series, every season, every short
- All advanced meditation programs
- Live darshan streams from every monastery channel
- Member-only commerce discount (15%)
- Member-tier retreat pricing on Circuit Tiers 2–4
- Direct dana flow — 10% of subscription auto-flows to your chosen monastery
- Offline downloads
- Multi-language audio (13 languages)
Live discourses with senior teachers. A personal monastic teacher. Pilgrimage credits.
The premium tier. Live discourses with Mingyur Rinpoche, Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, Plum Village seniors, Korean Jogye masters, and Theravada Mahanayakas — under negotiated discourse agreements. $100 annual pilgrimage credit, applicable to any Tier 2+ Circuit experience. A personal correspondence-style relationship with an assigned monastic teacher — modeled on the spiritual director tradition. Direct-dana flow to designated monasteries. An invitation to the annual TPS-hosted Lumbini retreat.
- Everything in Member
- Live discourses with senior teachers (Mingyur Rinpoche, Phakchok Rinpoche, Plum Village, Korean Jogye, Theravada Mahanayakas)
- $100 annual pilgrimage credit (Tier 2+ Circuit)
- Personal correspondence-style monastic teacher
- Direct-dana priority routing
- Annual TPS-hosted Lumbini retreat invitation (Vesak week)
- Cohort priority on sold-out retreats
- Founding-pilgrim status (Year 1 members only)
- Sangha Circle quarterly print journal
Direct dana — every transaction supports a monastic recipient.
Members choose their primary monastery and tradition; ten percent of every subscription auto-flows there. The monastery keeps 70–80% of channel revenue, the platform keeps 20–30% as infrastructure fee. This single mechanism resolves the canonical-authority problem and the monetization problem simultaneously: monasteries are not partners we negotiate with — they are revenue-share participants whose interests align with ours.
Begin the path. At your own pace.
Sacred. Cinematic. Premium. Invitations are extended in measured cohorts — the dharma is not for the impatient.
$0.80 of your subscription flowed to Royal Thai Monastery this month.
Every Member subscription routes 10% directly to a monastery you choose. Pilgrim Circle subscribers route 12%. The transfer is automatic, the ledger is public, and the monastery keeps the money.
The Sangha is the moat. The Sangha is what no Hollywood studio can buy.