Learn early Buddhism through conversation.
Ask what you're actually dealing with - anger, craving, stress, attention, relationships. BuddhaUR answers with grounded guidance and tappable citations to the early suttas, so you can verify it for yourself.
Free daily practice included. 7-day free trial for unlimited.
No gurus. No mystical drift. Sources.
Every substantial claim includes citations you can tap and verify.
A simple loop: learn, practice, return.
BuddhaUR is built around a repeatable rhythm:
Core features
A teacher you can talk to
Ask anything about life, practice, or doctrine. Get warm, patient answers in a Socratic style - not a generic chatbot.
Citations you can tap
Every answer is grounded in the earliest Buddhist sources. Tap citations to verify - links go straight to SuttaCentral translations.
Daily Dhamma talk
A personalized teaching each day based on your journey - your lessons, quizzes, and conversations. 1-15 minutes, saved to history.
47+ guided lessons
Walk through the Buddha's numbered frameworks - Four Noble Truths, Eightfold Path, Five Aggregates, and more - in chat-driven lessons.
Quizzes + adaptive practice
Turn "I read it" into "I know it." Adaptive practice focuses on your weak spots until the teachings stick.
Meditation timer + 9 lessons
A calm timer with gong or vibration alerts. Add reflection notes, then "chat about this session." Plus 9 meditation how-to lessons.
See it in action
A quick tour across lessons, quizzes, meditation, and more.
See the shape of the Dhamma.
Buddhism has a lot of "numbered frameworks" - Four Noble Truths, Eightfold Path, Five Aggregates, Five Hindrances, Seven Factors, dependent origination. BuddhaUR helps you browse them as an interactive visual map, so the relationships start to click.
Start free. Go unlimited if you want.
Daily allowance included
- 1 lesson per day
- 1 quiz per day
- 1 Daily Dhamma talk per day (up to 5 min)
- 5 chat messages per day
- Unlimited meditation timer
- 9 meditation lessons (always free)
- Conversation history + streaks
$4.99/month · $39.99/year (save 33%) · $99 lifetime
Unlimited lessons, quizzes, chat, adaptive practice, and longer Daily Dhamma talks (up to 15 min). Your subscription keeps the Dhamma free for others.
Each subscriber supports ~5 free practitioners. If revenue exceeds costs, we expand free access.
FAQ
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From David Kooi
I built BuddhaUR for the same reason I've built most things in my life: I wanted to understand what was true.
I'm a mathematician and statistician by training. I'm also a skeptical empiricist by temperament. When I finally took Buddhism seriously - after a 10-day silent meditation retreat - what I found wasn't a creed. It was a method. You don't have to swallow anything on faith. You give it enough trust to run the experiment.
BuddhaUR is my attempt to put the earliest sources in your hand, help you see the "numbered frameworks" as a coherent map, and invite you to test the claims in the lab of your own attention.
"You give it enough trust to run the experiment."
