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Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration

Fields of Creativity

By mokshapriya on Fri, 5 Dec, 2025 - 21:36

Fields of Creativity

By mokshapriya on Fri, 5 Dec, 2025 - 21:36

The final Unseen Sangharakshita video talk has just been released by the Triratna Video Library

Over the past twelve months the Triratna Video Library has celebrated Sangharakshita’s 100th birth anniversary with the video releases of twelve talks by Sangharakshita which have never edited or seen. Each talk has been presented with English subtitles and some with additional Spanish subtitles. These talks covering various topics, locations and years have hopefully enriched your connection with, and appreciation of, Bhante as well as...

Buddhist Centre Features
Buddhist Centre Features

New Podcast: Portraits of Samadhi

By Candradasa on Sat, 8 Nov, 2025 - 21:38

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Samādhi is the Sanskrit word for a state of peaceful, integrated absorption the mind can reach through meditation.

And people’s faces in meditation have been a source of fascination (and distraction) for documentary filmmaker Hartley Woolf since he began his own Buddhist practice. “I can’t help but enjoy taking in all the different expressions around me in the shrine room,” he says, “and wondering what’s going on inside the mind behind.”

Join us for a delightful...

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Buddhist Centre Features

New Podcast: The Intimacy of Art and the Dharma

By Candradasa on Sat, 13 Sep, 2025 - 02:05

Today we meet three Buddhists with a full time professional painting practice, exhibiting at The Art Pavilion in Mile End Eco Park. And we’re treated to a generous and intimate conversation about the tensions and creative dynamics between an explicitly artistic life and an implicitly spiritual, even religious one. All in context of shared joy at exhibiting openly as Buddhists in a beautiful space surrounded by and inflected with nature.

We explore the relationship between the values of Buddhism and...

Jobs, Volunteering & Communities
Jobs, Volunteering & Communities

Artist for Tiratanaloka Unlimited

By akasajoti on Sun, 17 Aug, 2025 - 20:03

Artist for Tiratanaloka Unlimited

By akasajoti on Sun, 17 Aug, 2025 - 20:03

To create an iconography that expresses Buddhist values in the modern world will take 200 years. (Aloka)

Could you be a part of this creation?

Tiratanaloka’s new shrine room will be the focal point of the whole retreat centre supporting the Bodhisattva aspirations of thousands of women now and into the future.

We are looking for an experienced artist to work with us to express our vision for this space.

We would love to see your portfolio to help us find the right person to work with...

Buddhist Centre Features
Buddhist Centre Features

Animated by the Dharma: New Podcast

By Candradasa on Mon, 16 Sep, 2024 - 14:00

A joyous conversation today with Buddhist artists and practitioners about illustration, animation, puppetry, model making and art - how all of these can help bring to life the Buddhist path in the most beautiful, moving and inspiring ways!

Mandarava has always been a maker. Her way into puppetry came initially through trying to make sense of deep family grief. Mandarava’s work is brimful of magic - filtered through fairy tales, her own deep immersion in illustrative art and the realm of stories...

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Buddhist Centre Features

The Heart of Imagination in Buddhism

By Candradasa on Mon, 2 Sep, 2024 - 14:00

The mind liberated from the pressure of the will is unfolded in symbols
W.B. Yeats

These days, mindfulness is everywhere. How can engaging with images - with imagination itself - take our awareness deeper and help us connect with something truly transformative? Join our guests Vishvapani and Amitajyoti to explore how a Buddhist perspective on consciousness can help move us towards a life touched more fully by a sense of creativity and freedom. 

In this episode, we...

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Buddhist Centre Features

New Dharma Story: The Impermanence of Everyone

By Candradasa on Sun, 23 Jun, 2024 - 15:41

New Dharma Story: The Impermanence of Everyone

By Candradasa on Sun, 23 Jun, 2024 - 15:41

Explore the extraordinary work of Buddhist artist Hugh Mendes around death, focussed through his decades-long series of paintings, ‘Obituaries’. Our new Dharma Story exploring questions of mortality, identity and, in the end, beauty and love.

🎬 Watch the accompanying film

🎧 Listen to the extended interview

🖼️ Visit the ‘Obituaries’ gallery

🖥️ See more Dharma Stories online

Triratna News
Triratna News

Competition: Help Animate Mara's Army!

By Aryajit on Tue, 5 Mar, 2024 - 19:34

Competition: Help Animate Mara's Army!

By Aryajit on Tue, 5 Mar, 2024 - 19:34

Dear Families, 

I’m creating a video about the life of the Buddha. 

Support Aryajit’s new animated work: ‘A Brief History of Buddhism in Six Minutes’

One of the most enjoyable parts of creating the video is drawing Mara (the “Lord of Death”) and his army, who try to stop the Buddha gaining Enlightenment by attacking him. I have been drawing beings from indian mythology, like Raksanas and Yaksas, but also skeleton armies, dinosaurs, dragons (as you can see from the attached sketches)...

Free Buddhist Audio
Free Buddhist Audio

Dharmabytes: A Sense of Values to Transform Our Lives

By Centre Team on Mon, 4 Dec, 2023 - 11:00

“Art is the organisation of sensuous impressions that express the artist’s sensibility and communicate to his audience a sense of values that can transform their lives.” Using his own definition, Sangharakshita investigates the relevance of art and the artist to higher evolution.

Excerpted from the talk entitled Art and the Spiritual Life given in 1969 as part of the series The Higher Evolution.

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