Tag: arts

Maitreyabandhu talks to Archbishop Rowan Williams, poet

On 19th March, Poetry East, at the London Buddhist Centre, UK, welcomed poet Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury. (Video 44 minutes)

Maitreyabandhu interviewed him. He writes: “We invited Dr Rowan Williams - Archbishop of Canterbury 2002-12, currently Master of Magdalen College, Cambridge -  to talk about poetry, faith, religion and suffering. Here he is in the main shrine room of the LBC, talking to me about his life, his poetry and his faith. He read from his two collections of poetry with ...

NewsByte video: Bhante's 90th birthday weekend

From now on, Clear Vision’s NewsByte stories will appear here as individual stories, as they happen. The first of these celebrates all the fun and creativity of Bhante’s 90th birthday weekend at the end of August: “Celebrating the Arts at Adhisthana”. (13 minutes)

See Bhante arrive in heavy rain, hear the music, see the paintings and puja, feel the friendship!

(Apologies for the lateness of this post, which is nothing to do with Clear Vision.)

Read more about the weekend.
Read about Bhante’s birthday present.
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Show, Don't Tell - Communicating the Dharma Through the Arts by Sarvananda (video)

As part of our recent coverage of the Arts event ‘Conscious Surrender to the Beautiful’, which took place at at Adhisthana, we brought you a recording of Sarvananda’s excellent and, at times, hilarious talk ‘Show, Don’t Tell - Communicating the Dharma Through the Arts’.

Usually audio recordings of talks are an ideal way to revisit them - and since Sarvananda is a great radio man (he writes plays for radio in...