Now Showing: Aryaloka 40th Anniversary Art Exhibition Part One

The arts have been a part of Aryaloka over the years with many art shows and art’s nights held in the yoga room. The current exhibition showcases art from Aryaloka’s collection and posters from a selection of art exhibitions held at Aryaloka in the past.  A second exhibition with more art from Aryaloka’s collection will be held in the fall. 

The exhibition can be viewed on Tuesdays between 5pm and 6:30pm or while attending our weekly Tuesday Friends’ Evening at 6:45pm. All other viewings can be arranged by appointment by emailing info@aryaloka.org .

Triratna’s founder “Sangharakshita was a poet, a reader and a lover of beauty. He passed on to Triratna a sense of the profound sympathy that can exist between a Buddhist spiritual life and the arts at their best.” (From the Buddhist Center online)

“Enjoyment of great works of art, we may say, enlarges our own consciousness. When we listen to a great piece of music or when we see a great painting, read a great poem, really experience it, really allow it to soak into us, we go beyond our ordinary or normal consciousness, we become bigger, greater, our whole life is modified, our whole experience is transformed and, if we persist in interests of this sort, this gradually affects the whole of our being, and eventually, as I have said, even our lives may be transformed.” Quote from Sangharakshita