The Value of Art in a Digital Age
Grace Song
25 March 2023
A reminder to slow down and experience the depth and beauty of great art in our increasingly fast-paced technological world
American Buddhist Cultural Society Announces Groundbreaking for New Six-Story Temple in San Francisco
Justin Whitaker
19 January 2023
New building looks to the future of Buddhism in America with architecture that welcomes and engages
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
Opening to Beauty
Tiffani Gyatso
30 July 2022
A Buddhist perspective on nurturing creativity and opening our hearts and minds to the beauty of the universe
Love Carved in Stone: Appreciating Buddhist Art in a Non-Buddhist Way
Guoying Stacy Zhang
7 January 2021
Evocations of loving-kindness and compassion in secular…
What I’ve Learned about Surrendering to Love with Courage and Authenticity
Breeshia Wade
27 November 2019
Living without illusions
Dalai Lama’s Statements about Women and Refugees Lead to Outcry and an Apology
Justin Whitaker
3 July 2019
Excerpts from a BBC interview draw criticism and defense…
The Big Uncertainty
Anam Thubten Rinpoche
3 January 2018
Uncertainty, impermanence, and the awakened heart
Buddhistdoor View: How to Be Happily Unhappy
Buddhistdoor Global
25 November 2016
The History Boys (2006), a masterful film adaptation of playwright Alan Bennett’s drama of the same name, has a thoughtful and melancholy ending. The film deploys
Why Beauty Matters in Vajrayana Buddhism
Tinley Fynn
13 October 2013
Ideas of beauty are found in almost, if not every, culture. At almost every period in human history, these ideas have also shared many similarities.
What’s Your Aesthetic? Celebrating Buddhist Culture and Beauty
Buddhistdoor Global
25 February 2011
Perhaps in theory, Buddhists have no concern for or have transcended aesthetic beauty. But on the ground, there is nothing more inspiring and nothing more