Art & Buddhism
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Award for Shodō Calligraphy at Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
I am surprised and delighted that my calligraphy artwork has been awarded a Special Selection prize (Tokusen 特選) at the 73rd Shokaisha Exhibition 第73回 書海社展 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art […]
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Exhibition at Dundee Botanic Gardens
TRACES OF SHODŌMargaret Kerr and Blair Shōgen Thomson Green Gallery: University of Dundee Botanic GardenRiverside Drive, Dundee DD2 1QH30th Oct – 19th Nov 2024 This exhibition shows a series of […]
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Renga: place and time entwined
Exhibition organised by Margaret Kerr 5th – 25th November 2023Green Gallery, Dundee University Botanical Gardens About this exhibition This exhibition features work by eight artists who spent an August weekend […]
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Exhibition in Japan
Blair participated in the ART/X/TOYAMA international exhibition in Japan in May 2022. ART/X/TOYAMA is a contemporary public exhibition showing artworks from Japanese and international invited artists, and has been held […]
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Snow Chanting
Walking in Glasgow in the beautiful soft snow chanting the short Enmei Jukku Kannon Gyo Sutra 💚❄️ Please join me and friends from the Glasgow Zen Group on Sunday 7th of March @12.30pm UTC+0 […]
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Meditatively stitching a zen robe
Having been born to meet the spread of this Dharma, if we cover our body with the kasaya only once, receiving it and retaining it for just a ksana or […]
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Kusen 255 collaboration with John Fraser
Dragons see palaces (heavy rain is falling) In the Mountains and Waters Sutra, Dogen says that when human beings see water, fish and dragons see palaces. He doesn’t say that […]
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Shakyo – bringing the Sutra to life with each brush stroke and pen mark
Our first online Shakyo 写経 practice event saw us come together from Scotland, and elsewhere such as the rest of the UK and Canada, forming a lovely group of sutra […]
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Walking and chanting the Lotus Sutra Odaimoku
The Odaimoku お題目 chant – repeating the title of the Lotus Sutra Namumyohourengekyou 南無妙法蓮華経 – is principally associated with the Nichiren-shu school but was originally part of a Tendai chant, […]