
Art
Meet Buddhist artists, explore historical Buddhist artwork, and see how Buddhist concepts show up in and inspire visual art, film, music, dance, poetry, and more. For more, view the portfolio section of Tricycle magazine, which highlights contemporary Buddhist art.

Japanese artist Yoshio Ikezaki’s new works embrace impermanence, intuition, and the energy of change.

CultureMagazine | Parting Words
Spring-Watching Pavilion
Where is nirvana?

Naked Reality
How Buddhist practice shaped Marina Abramovic’s performance art

Inside the Making of the New Red Pine Documentary
An interview with Dancing with the Dead director Ward Serrill

From ‘Sidetracks’
Bei Dao’s poetry conveys the dislocation of exile in hazy, dreamlike cantos.

‘Refuge’
Quan Barry’s poetry reckons with our simultaneous capacities for violence and transcendence—and what it means to find refuge in a world seemingly defined by war.

‘Biography of a Thought’
The contemporary Tibetan painter Tenzing Rigdol on Buddhism versus secularism and his new installation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

CultureMagazine | Parting Words
Snow Valley
A poem by Musō Soseki

The Art of Impermanence
With luminous artwork, Miya Ando chronicles the passage of time

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