We’re offering a final series of three presentations from the BCBS Spring 2016 Dharma and Arts Symposium this month. You can find other presentations in the April and May issues of Insight Journal Practicing Art, Practicing Ethics, Practicing Dharma Our final three presentations all combine personal narratives of practice, creative expression, and artistic development. Ruth Ozeki’s “Dharma, Ethics and Art” explores the relationship between fiction-writing and Buddhist ethics by opening … [Read more...]
Erica Pittman
Putting Art-Making Back on the Map II: Dharma and Art Symposium at BCBS
This month Insight Journal offers three more presentations from BCBS’ Spring 2016 Dharma and Arts Symposium (earlier presentations are available in last month’s issue). Art as a Support for and Instrument of Buddhist Practice By way of examining historical and contemporary examples of Buddhist art-making, each of this month’s three presentations engages with the question of the relationship between imagination, artistic expression and dharma practice. David McMahon’s “The Buddhist … [Read more...]
Putting Art-Making Back on the Map I: Dharma and Arts Symposium at BCBS
In Spring 2016, Barre Center for Buddhist Studies held its first Dharma and Arts Symposium. As board member and artist, Rosalyn Driscoll, pointed out during the conference, it can sometimes seem to practitioners that “art-making is off the map...at worst, a distraction from the path to awakening”. As a way of putting it back on the map, artist-practitioners came together over the course of 4 days to discuss the intersections of Buddhism, dharma practice and artistic expression. Comprised of … [Read more...]
