Conference on art and society & Mindful Artists Network

From Urthona - A Journal of Buddhism and the Arts on Fri, 29 Mar, 2013 - 14:40This event organised by people from the Interbeing Sangha may be of interest to Triratna folk who are keen on the arts and issues of how the arts can transform society.

Ratnagarbha

Copy of letter from the organiser SUSANNE OLBRICH:

Dear friends,we would like to bring to your and your sangha’s awareness the international Mindful Artists Network with its first artists’ retreat “The Heart of Creativity” in June 2013, in Findhorn/Scotland.

We would...

Buddha Festival 2013 celebrated in Nagpur

From Triratna News on Tue, 26 Mar, 2013 - 05:39Ritayush writes from Nagpur, heartland of the Buddhist revival in India, where Triratna’s Nagpur Buddhist Centre recently celebrated their very successful 2013 Buddha Festival. Due to the success of their past Festivals in 2011 and 2012 they were able to hold the Festival at the historic Deeksha Bhoomi, site of Ambedkar’s historic mass conversion to Buddhism in 1956. He writes -

“It is very important that these three Buddha Festivals were organized at the Deeksha Bhoomi, where the historic...