Now Showing: Aryaloka 40th Anniversary Art Exhibition Part Two

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.  

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

Aryaloka has a deep commitment to the Contemplative Arts – supporting the art process, creativity and artistic expression as tools for communication spiritual insights and, in the process of creation, the dropping of ‘self’.

Over the past seventeen years more than 35 exhibitions have been mounted in this Yoga Room Gallery. A list of these significant exhibitions is posted in the Yoga Room at present. Donations from some of these exhibitions have added art work by sangha as well as local artists to the already existing collection of paintings, sculpture, rupas in the Aryaloka Collection. The collection now numbers over forty pieces and continues to grow.

During this Fortieth Anniversary Year of 2025 the Arts Kula is presenting two exhibitions showcasing many of the collection pieces you are familiar with and some of the graphic posters that publicized past exhibitions.

Deep gratitude to all the artists whose work is represented here and for kind donations that have helped build this significant collection.

Thank you for joining us in this wonderful celebration of the Arts at Aryaloka.

Current Arts Kula: Kiranada, Advayashri, Lois Sans, Sarah Tambling, Jo Beltre

Past Members of the Kula: Betsy Cadbury, Maitrivati, Jean Corson, Sandy Sirios, Cynthia Fidyk, Tobbie Krantz, Dianne Wright, Eric Ebbeson, Sue Ebbeson