An Engaged Sangha - SZC In The World
Photo Gallery

World as Self retreats are held at our city zendo, when students take their practice into the streets.

Robert Aitken Roshi, Anne Aitken and Nelson Foster are co-founders of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship (BPF). SZC members have been foundation members of BPF in Sydney.

You can learn more about Buddhist Peace Fellowship at www.bpf.org

BPF members painted the BPF banner which is seen at peace vigils and other events.

Shadowproject: Gillian Coote draws a shadow on the pavement on the 60th anniversary
of the dropping of atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Chalk peace mandala by SZC members and friends in the lead-up to the invasion
of Iraq. Hyde Park, Sydney.

Peace mandala chalked onto Sydney pavement prior to the invasion of Iraq

Hiroshima mandala, chalked by mothers and children at Hyde Park, Sydney.

 

SZC mandala designed by member Glenys Jackson at Gallery 4A Sydney,
made from everyday kitchen ingredients eg. beans, lentils, seeds,
a variety of spices, flower petals etc.

Sangha members constructing the mandala at Gallery 4A

Gallery 4A mandala is ritually destroyed with a spectacular dance

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SZC was invited by the Art Gallery of NSW to spend a week in the Wisdom Room during the exhibition, Buddha Radiant Awakening, creating a Zen mandala. Sangha members work mindfully on the black, white and grey mandala over six days. During lunch breaks, SZC students offered talks, story telling, poetry and shakuhachi concerts, and on the seventh day, a ceremony of destruction was led by Subhana Barzaghi.

 

SZC members constructing a Glenys Jackson mandala for Art Gallery of NSW exhibition:
Buddha: Radiant AwakeningThe mandala is made up from ordinary everyday ingredience
eg. rice, flour, seeds, beans, coffee, sago, etc.