The Buddha Project
Trent Gilliss,
Online Editor
The online photography magazine Lens Culture has compiled a fabulous group of images (over 300 now) of the Buddha in the far reaches of Asia to the grounds of the Golden Bears in Berkeley. A fair number of photography, design, architectural magazines and blogs — the ones I read — usually focus on the aesthetic, the theory, the economics, and so on of an object. It’s reassuring to read how a magazine’s editors spend time on a project like this for the sake of preservation, and, as they put it:
“Images of Buddha can remind us to take a breath, to look around, to feel calm and compassionate, to be here now. You can notice Buddha almost anywhere — laundromats, store windows, barbershops, farmers’ markets, souvenir stands, tucked away on someone’s night table.”— speakingoffaith
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public radio + digital cat (sr. editor of On Being); family man who longs for subtle glimpses of beauty in the ordinary
