Many of those who practice on our community first found us through our Spanish-language YouTube channel, faceBuda. In the 12 years that we have been offering weekly Dharma talks every single Sunday without fail, our audience has grown to over 190,000 subscribers.Our videos have received over 19 million views, and have served as many people’s first contact with the teachings of the Buddha. FaceBuda offers Buddhist resources in a way that they can be readily applied to people’s daily lives and social contexts, whether or not they adopt Buddhism as a spiritual path.

Our main teacher, Damcho, began webcasting teachings every Sunday from India in 2010, even before YouTube existed. Our faceBuda channel has offered a weekly Dharma teaching every Sunday without interruption. Damcho continues to offer many of the weekly teachings, with guest teachers  including Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, Bhikkhu Bodhi, Pema Khandro Rinpoche, Lama Willa Baker, Venerable Thubten Chodron, Venerable Tenzin Peljor, Geshe Dawa, Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, and many more. Most recently, Dharmadatta nun Thubten Karya has joined the faceBuda teaching team.

Responding to a request from a group of women in Mexico, Damcho gave the first Sunday talk via Skype from India in 2010. At the time, she was studying and training in India and traveling to Latin American annually on teaching tours. By the second week, two other groups in Mexico had heard of the opportunity to receive talks remotely and asked to join. However, at the time, Skype did not support more than two participants on a call. A man from one of the groups immediately passed on access to a website he had created to livestream Dharma and he gave it the somewhat unfortunate name ‘faceBuda’. Within a few months, dozens of groups and individuals were joining for the weekly talks, which were livestreamed by UStream.

Topics covered over the years on our faceBuda channel range from emotional resilience, meditation as a means of awakening, healthy communication, death and dying, addressing abuse in Buddhist communities and at home, gender identities, and conscious responses to the ecological crises to narratives of women from the Buddhist canon, Mahayana sutras, working with karma and more.