HUGE thanks to reader Alice K. for this crazy-ass ‘Burger. She writes:

“I found this last night and thought I’d send it your way. It’s a computer game called Zen Fashion. There’s a free demo you can download too.”

[From the game's website:] “Zen Fashion is a whirlwind match-3 adventure through the fashion cultures of the Orient. In Zen Fashion, you take the role of a young Japanese fashion designer ready to break out on her own. But before she can truly succeed, she must journey to the fashion capitals of Asia to learn the Zen Fashion secrets of her ancestors.”

The site goes on to describe the game as “as beautiful as it is addictive,” and lists the “Zen powers” that players can accumulate, which include “the Eye for Fashion.”

There are even “Zen breaks at the end of every level allow the player to relax and enjoy the scenery.” Well, that’s nice, I suppose.

Sometimes Dharma-Burgers are so weird they’re almost cool. This is one of them, so thanks, Alice.

Tibet: a place where you can “experience incredible adventure.” A “mysterious world, where the distinction between real and unreal does not exist.” “A world where all the dreams come true and nothing is impossible.” A land that “does not reveal its secrets easily.”

So says the breathless online copy for Tibet Quest, a shareware computer game with “65 explosive levels” from Fenomen Games.

I have to say, for all of the copy’s effort to trade on and perpetuate the exoticism of Tibet, I couldn’t get past level one, which was sort of like Concentration meets Tetris, but with a looping music bed that, ironically, made paying attention a challenge. Since I bailed after just minutes, I can’t say the game’s heart is in the wrong place — though the idea of a game whose object is to discover Shangri-La and pillage it “find buried relics” could make one uneasy. Ah well. If this sounds like your kind of thing — I think I’m way too old for it, despite being just a big baby-man — you can download a trial with one hour of gameplay here.

Thanks to Molly DeShong and Sam DeWitt for simultaneously alterting the Horse about a new “Buddha Machine” iPhone app, as reported on Synthopia.

As you may know, the Buddha Machine is a Horse favorite-gizmo. (More here, and also this cool new working online “wall” of them from Zendesk, which almost makes me feel bad about this.) Now if only I had an iPhone. (Santa?)

And while we’re talking iPhones, check out Not2wo’s clever wish-list of Dharmic dream-apps.

Good ol’ stalwart Sam sends this one, writing, “What is Zen Bound? I think I just heard you asking. Well, I am not sure. Looks like an iphone game work in progress.

The unstoppable Sam DeWitt writes to say…

“…then the kids are on the ship shooting at Buddha as he rises out of the water, then Buddha’s hand engorges and repels the attack, then the kids swing the epic sword and cut off Buddha’s head, then a geyser of Buddha blood spurts forth… and then, not to be outdone, all the kids jump one by one onto the crucifix, and they become, of course… THE NEW ULTIMATE JESUS! …And that is about half of it.

“No, I have not lost my mind… but you might if you dare to view this. The soundtrack alone is wicked killer brilliant, but add on the animation and you have something that just sort of defies description. Stick with it, it rocks!”

WTF is Sam talking about? Well, you’ll just have to see for yourself, here.

Big, BIG thanks to Sam — as usual.

Thanks to reader Dan C. who sends in a new Dharma-Burger that’s “not quite as juicy as my last one, but edible (if you can call it that, lol) nonetheless…”:

http://www.kongregate.com/games/ahnt/loops-of-zen

It’s a “Zen” game, complete with “Zen” music…