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...

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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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Dharmabyte: Great Art and Literature in the Modern West

By Sadayasihi on Thu, 24 Oct, 2019 - 14:00

In the 1980s, ‘Independent Arts’ ran an ambitious and extremely impressive Arts program through the Croydon Buddhist Centre in London. Here’s a first offering from the archive of recordings - an open conversation between Sangharakshita, founder of the Western Buddhist Order, and the renowned poet and scholar Kathleen Raine, one of the founders of the Temenos Academy.

The occasion was the launch of Sangharakshita’s book ‘The Religion of Art’ - and the discussion ranges widely and, at times, controversially through the subject...