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Urthona
Urthona is a magazine for arousing the imagination. Founded in 1992, Urthona explores the arts and culture from a spiritual perspective. Published twice yearly, Urthona presents a 56 page lavishly illustrated full colour magazine with fascinating feature articles, reviews, poetry and original art work. Urthona covers all art forms, both Eastern and Western, and aims to bring the best of Western art and literature (old masters and still wet on the canvas) into contact with the Buddhist vision. Urthona has a very international flavour and an increasing Australian content. Every issue has a different theme which is explored in depth with several articles.
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Urthona is released twice a year. Subscriptions are $A 21.80 for 2 issues, or $42.80 for 4 issues, within Australia and New Zealand. If you would like to begin a subscription to Urthona please click here. (If a subscription is all you're ordering, we will not be charging you the postage which will appear on the order form.)
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Forthcoming Issue (due July 2007):
We have wanted to bring out an issue dedicated to Indian culture for quite a while, but it is only recently that we felt we had the courage and the range of talented writers to bring such a project to fruition. So at last we have collected together here a rich and fascinating range of material, in order to give just a few tiny glimpses of the vast artistic heritage of India. All in all this is an immensely exciting, yet demanding time to be an artist in India, as the country faces the challenges of industrial growth and of being an increasingly vital player on the world stage.
Back Issues:
Urthona 22 - Art, Awareness and Social Action:
In this issue Urthona gets engaged. We look at art and Buddhism as tools for social change. Many would say that all artists can do is draw our attention to injustice and suffering in the most graphic way possible. This issue is based on the conviction that artists, all of us in fact, are capable of something better. We look at ways in which art can engage with society without selling out to the material values that underlie most political philosophies. Ways in which art can be used not as an instrument for political propaganda, but as a path of transformation, in partnership with direct political action on equal terms.
William S. Kowinski on a U.S. consortium; Gary Gach gives a Buddhist perspective to film; Interview with Michael McClure, Beat poet; Chögyam Trungpa: discovering elegance; Dance/Movement Therapy at Boulder's Naropa University; Susan Murphy Roshi: The koan of dream
'Visions of the sacred earth and mythic landscapes'; Gary Snyder on the sacred mountains of the Ear East; Aboriginal art of the Kutjungka people; Andy Goldsworthy; Resurrecting Dragons; Coleridge and the goddess; Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring'; Harold Mockford; Whenua - The Maori and the Ecology of Placental Connection; The Myth of the Light and the Bodhi Tree
Urthona 19 - Writing: the healing art:
Anish Kapoor, Ursula Le Guin, Iris Murdoch, Jane Hirshfield, William Stafford, Kathleen Raine, Phillip Pullman, Robert Gray, Beverly Farmer
Urthona 18 - Rumi and the Path of Love:
Rumi, Shakespeare, Robert Bly, Pablo Naruda, Handel
Urthona 17 - Towards a New Renaissance:
Camille Paglia, Piet Mondrian, Piero della Francesca, Sangharakshita and Kathleen Raine, Keith Grant, A new Renaissance?
Gary Snyder, Robert Bly, Aboriginal Architecture, The Green Man, Walt Whitman
Urthona 15 - Struggle and Serenity:
Rodin, Allen Ginsberg, Emily Dickinson, Verdi, Kathleen Raine, Twenty Great Dramas
Urthona 14: Twentieth Century Retrospective:
Seamus Heaney, Robert Bly, Urgyen Sangharakshita, Brancusi, Tate Modern, Jazz, Conceptual art, Blake & the Buddha, JS Bach
Basho, Japanese cinema, Zen landscapes, Jan Garbarek
Natalie Goldberg, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Sahaja, Jane Hirshfield, Dhammarati
Urthona 11: Romanticism and higher consciousness:
Robert Bly, Keats, Mary Oliver, Caspar David Friedrich
Urthona 10: Buddhism and Postmodernism:
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Urthona 9: The Symbolic Cosmos:
Kathleen Raine, William Stafford, Dante, Shamanism, Keith Grant, Karunachitta
Urthona 8: Tragedy and Comedy:
Nietzsche, Apollo, Dionysus, Ginsberg, Shakespeare
William Blake, Milton, Chintamani, Ananda
Dharmachari Aloka, John Ruskin, Yves Bonnefoy, Ted Hughes, Cezanne
Urthona 5: The Alchemy of the Senses:
Sangharakshita, Shakespeare, Henry Wuorila-Stenberg
Urthona 4 - The Ascent into Beauty:
Plato, Coleridge, Botticelli, Redon, Cecil Collins
Urthona 3 - Art and the Elemental:
William Blake, Keith Grant, Peter Redgrove, Dharmachari Chintamani and Satyadaka