Tag: Art

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...

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 look...

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

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Competition: Help Animate Mara's Army!

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

Raksana (crop)
Yaksha (crop)
Raksana (full)
Yaksha (full)

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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)...

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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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Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: ...

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Watch the Alfoxton Film Exclusively on the Buddhist Centre Online

By Candradasa on Fri, 29 Sep, 2023 - 20:08

Watch the Alfoxton Film Exclusively on the Buddhist Centre Online

By Candradasa on Fri, 29 Sep, 2023 - 20:08

THE BUDDHIST CENTRE [ONLINE] presents ‘A Renovating Virtue’, a poetic and affecting documentary by Hartley Woolf, capturing a year in the life of the Triratna Buddhist community who have taken on the ambitious task of renovating the dilapidated estate of Alfoxton Park in the heart of the Somerset countryside.

Once home to William and Dorothy Wordsworth, the community’s vision is to run the house as an arts and meditation retreat centre. Following the seasons, the film beautifully reveals...

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Yashobodhi on Bringing Mindfulness to Our Appreciation of Art

By Centre Team on Thu, 4 May, 2023 - 21:28

Yashobodhi on Bringing Mindfulness to Our Appreciation of Art

By Centre Team on Thu, 4 May, 2023 - 21:28

A beautiful new video by Yashobodhi as part of her work with the Limina Collective for the National Gallery in the UK.

Take a slow, guided look at the ‘An Old Woman (The Ugly Duchess’) by Quinten Massys, engaging with kindness and curiosity…

🧘 A Slow Look at Hobbema’s Dutch Landscape: 3-minute Meditation with Yashobodhi for the National Gallery

Urthona - A Journal of Buddhism and the Arts

New Issue of Urthona OUT NOW

By Ratnagarbha on Mon, 10 Apr, 2023 - 11:12

Storm over Zennor,...
Rainy Afternoon, Eigg,...

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New Issue of Urthona OUT NOW

By Ratnagarbha on Mon, 10 Apr, 2023 - 11:12

URTHONA 36 unknown landscapes

Urthona Issue 36 ‘Unknown Landscapes’ is out now! A sumptuous issue devoted to landscape art and writing…

Landscapes move and uplift us in ways that are hard to pin down. Artists explore such emotional responses and bring clarity, awareness and transformational depth to the process. They help us to make the appreciation of landscape more conscious and meaningful.

As Christopher Neve in his wonderful book ‘Unquiet Landscape’ says of the work of Paul Nash: ‘pictures, like the landscape itself, enunciate with the greatest...

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Preorder the New Issue of Urthona 'Unknown Landscapes'

By Centre Team on Tue, 20 Dec, 2022 - 14:44

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Preorder the New Issue of Urthona 'Unknown Landscapes'

By Centre Team on Tue, 20 Dec, 2022 - 14:44

Urthona Issue 36 ‘Unknown Landscapes’ will be out just after Xmas.

As Christopher Neve in his wonderful book ‘Unquiet Landscape’ says of the work of Paul Nash: ‘pictures, like the landscape itself, enunciate with the greatest clarity a language that is beyond words.’

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