Living Playfully: Glimpses into a Buddhist Artist’s Training and Practice
Ratnadevi
24 January 2025
Ratnadevi teaches us the power of mindfully bringing play into our everyday lives
The Art of Mindful Looking
Ratnadevi
19 January 2023
How slowing down changes our relationship with the world, inviting in deeper connection to its beauty
Rarified, Recondite, and Abstruse: Zeami’s Nine Stages
Joseph Houseal
13 June 2020
The hidden wisdom of Japanese Noh
Performative Iconography, Part One
Joseph Houseal
2 November 2019
Mystic expressions of tantric meditation
The Kalmyk Temple of Victory: Survival of Buddhism on the Volga
Valeria Gazizova
17 August 2019
Russia’s only extant Buddhist temple from pre-Soviet times
One Hundred Shades of Grey: The Abstract Ink Paintings of Keiko Arai
Meher McArthur
13 August 2019
Creating Japanese Zen Buddhist art that lives and…
Challenging Reality: The Painted Sculptures of Masayuki Tsubota
Meher McArthur
19 June 2019
Art as a vehicle for deconstructing our notions of…
Art in Context: A Tibetan Shrine Room at the Rubin Museum of Art, NYC
Tinley Fynn
4 September 2013
Having (very) temporarily moved to New York, I have never felt so detached from the background of Tibetan Buddhism that has always been a strong
Buddha-Nature: Chinese Themes of Nature and Enlightenment
Ven. Dao Ran
2 September 2013
Mountains are ever-present, natural temples. Images of nature have always been associated with Chinese Buddhism throughout history. For example, having been blocked by the storm,
Sangharakshita’s “The Religion of Art”: Reconciling Buddhism with aesthetics
Jeffrey Martin
18 May 2013
If the goal of Buddhism is nirvana, or at least to live a life based on Buddhist principles, how does the creation or consumption of