Tag: art and the Dharma

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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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...

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A Slow Look at Hobbema's Dutch Landscape

By Centre Team on Tue, 6 Feb, 2024 - 21:19

A Slow Look at Hobbema's Dutch Landscape

By Centre Team on Tue, 6 Feb, 2024 - 21:19

Yashobodhi leads us in a mindful look at Hobbema’s ‘Avenue at Middelharnis’ for the UK National Gallery.

The composition of this painting was a powerful influence on later artists. It was admired by Van Gogh, who emulated its effects in several paintings after he first saw it in the National Gallery in 1884, and it probably also inspired Camille Pissarro’s ‘The Avenue, Sydenham’. David Hockney even made his own version in 2017, ‘Tall Dutch...

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Akashalila's Artwork Featured in the Royal Academy Summer Show

By Sadayasihi on Wed, 6 Oct, 2021 - 16:46

Akashalila's Artwork Featured in the Royal Academy Summer Show

By Sadayasihi on Wed, 6 Oct, 2021 - 16:46

The Royal Academy Summer Show is the largest open art show in the world and has been running since 1769. Every artist has the chance to submit their work and a few hundred of the thousands of applications are chosen to hang in the exhibition. The show is an eclectic mix of works by established artists and emerging artists. This year Order member and artist Akashalila, based in Malvern, Worcestershire, UK, has had a piece of work accepted into...