Tag: Triratna Arts

Revisiting the Romantics by Vishvapani

By Vishvapani on Sat, 8 Nov, 2025 - 21:51

Revisiting the Romantics by Vishvapani

By Vishvapani on Sat, 8 Nov, 2025 - 21:51

Vishvapani in the recent edition of Tricycle:

Alfoxton Park in Somerset, southwest England, sits halfway up a long incline that rises from the Bristol Channel to the Quantock Hills. The main house, built in a neoclassical style in 1710, could be home to a Jane Austen heroine. But look more closely and you see crumbling plasterwork, decaying windows, and a tumbledown roof. I’ve come to know Alfoxton since 2020, when it became home to a community of Buddhists from the
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New Tour and Album by Sahajatara (Trey Blake) with Jim White

By Centre Team on Tue, 14 Jan, 2025 - 12:10

New Tour and Album by Sahajatara (Trey Blake) with Jim White

By Centre Team on Tue, 14 Jan, 2025 - 12:10

Sahajatara (under the name Trey Blake) has an album out this month (January) with the esteemed and eccentric American musician Jim White of “Searching for the Wrong-eyed Jesus” fame on the Fluff and Gravy record label. Jim’s film is still available to watch on the BBC. The Album is already being well reviewed, and is Uncut Magazine’s Americana Album of the Month! The Album is called Precious Bane after the 1924 book by Mary Webb, which Sahajatara gave Jim...

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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)...

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Sangharakshita Songs

By Centre Team on Sun, 22 Oct, 2023 - 16:43

Sangharakshita Songs

By Centre Team on Sun, 22 Oct, 2023 - 16:43

Next February a date has been scheduled to record a setting of 8 poems by Sangharakshita, with The Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the South African baritone Theo Magongoma. Entitled Sangharakshita Songs, they can be heard here in a piano version with Manidhara/Graham Titus:

Listen to the piano version of Sangharakshita Songs

Listen to more pieces on on Akashadeva’s web site

Essentially, the plan is to combine this work with the existing 2019 recording of the Carbon Symphony, and to launch a worldwide CD and streaming platform release of...

Urthona - A Journal of Buddhism and the Arts

New Issue of Urthona OUT NOW

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

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...

London Buddhist Centre

PoetryEast with Dara McAnulty

By Maitreyabandhu on Mon, 25 Jul, 2022 - 17:22

PoetryEast with Dara McAnulty

By Maitreyabandhu on Mon, 25 Jul, 2022 - 17:22

Saturday, 30th July, 7.30pm (in-person, watch this space for details of the YouTube Premiere online, coming soon!)

Dara McAnulty is a Northern Irish naturalist, writer and environmental campaigner. In 2015, when just 15 years old, he became the youngest ever winner of the RSPB Medal and received the Wainwright Prize for UK nature writing in 2020, after the release of his debut book ‘Diary of a Young Naturalist’, which chronicles the turning of his fourteenth year and details his intense connection to the...

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Seeing It Better: A Review of 'After Cézanne' by Maitreyabandhu

By Vishvapani on Thu, 21 Apr, 2022 - 17:26

Seeing It Better: A Review of 'After Cézanne' by Maitreyabandhu

By Vishvapani on Thu, 21 Apr, 2022 - 17:26

After Cézanne,
By Maitreyabandhu,
Bloodaxe, 2019

Review by Vishvapani
Maitreyabandhu’s most recent poetry collection reflects on Cézanne’s paintings and is a subtle meditation on the possibilities of art and perception

The epigraph of Maitreyabandhu’s most recent collection After Cézanne is a quote from a letter the artist sent to Emile Bernard in 1904: ‘Talking about art is virtually useless.’ That challenges the fifty-plus poems in the collection, which all relate directly or indirectly to Cézanne’s painting and are generously...

West London Buddhist Centre

Gala Night: Performances from Padmamati, Jonathan Cohen and others

By Sophie_WLBCPublicity on Tue, 2 Mar, 2021 - 10:59

Gala Night: Performances from Padmamati, Jonathan Cohen and others

By Sophie_WLBCPublicity on Tue, 2 Mar, 2021 - 10:59

Hello friends,

Due to the popularity of the WLBC’s Poetry Evening recently, we are inviting you all once more to our Precious Jewel fundraising finale on Friday 12 March, 7-9.30pm! There will be storytelling from Padmamati (Stephen Coates), music and words from Jonathan Cohen and a reading of poetic extracts from the writings of Jinananda – and much more!

No booking needed, just turn up: https://westlondonbuddhistcentre.com/event/precious-jewel-gala-night-per…