Tag: tantra
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The Eighty-Four Mahasiddhas: Understanding Buddhist Imagery
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The Eighty-Four Mahasiddhas are historical figures that lived between the eighth and twelfth centuries that achieved great accomplishments. A more western definition is that a “siddha” is someone with magical powers and “maha” means above all others. How they achieved these abilities came to be known as the Buddhist Tantras. Commonly known as “siddhis”, these psychic and spiritual abilities have…
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A Tantric Viewpoint: Living Together vs Marriage
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Someone recently asked me why should any man bother getting married? He said men risked being ruined financially by one bad woman. He was lamenting that he could get stuck paying alimony or child support. Why not just live with someone instead? Let me begin by saying to live with someone is not the same…
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A Tantric Viewpoint: Reconnecting To Our Lover’s Energy In A Disconnected World
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A long time ago in a galaxy called the “Buddha-verse”, there existed a world where the Goddess ruled. This was the world of Tantra. The core of these teachings reveal that we are each a microcosm of the universe and everything mirrored in our reality is a macrocosm of what is going on within us.…
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Impotence and Tantra: How An Ancient Practice Can Shed New Light On A Modern Issue
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Tantra is an ancient practice of breath and energy work that originated in Hinduism, and later migrated into Buddhism. The tantras are ancient texts that span from the the 5th to the 8th century. Each discourse represents a software for running the human body. Together they offer a kind of “stealth” spiritual technology that can…
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Art and Buddhism
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Tibetan Buddhism was introduced to the West in the 1960’s. It was significant for changing the pattern of keeping mystical knowledge secret. This New American Dharma (a term coined by Llama Surya Das) began making available any knowledge that would help humanity empower itself spiritually. My own introduction to Buddhism began as a child when a sleeping disorder…
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The Marriage of Art & the Erotic: Together Again
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©2017 Uriél Dana When an artist stops painting, it does not mean they’ve stopped making art. It usually just means they’ve said all the can say on a particular subject. Life can strike us with an experience and a new series of work can be birthed to the world in an instant. Painting a series…
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Uriél Dana: Fine Artist, Writer, Lecturer
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This interview was originally published in Narrative Paths Journal here Uriél Dana has been honored for her work as a fine artist, writer, and lecturer for more than three decades. Her oils, gouache, and lost wax bronze work has been shown in 12 countries on 4 continents. She is a former U.S. State Department Ambassador…
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A 1998 Interview On The Collaborative Art of Gage Taylor & Uriel Dana
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AN INTERVIEW WITH VISIONARY ARTISTS:GAGE TAYLOR & URIEL DANAby Jon Keeyes Since 1984, Visionary Artists Gage Taylor and Uriel Dana have been delivering a spiritual message to people around the world. Using vivid landscapes, mystical imagery and detailed colors, these two masters have crafted some of the most entrancing art the world has seen. One…
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A 1998 Interview Between Uriél Dana and Gage Taylor
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In 1998 I asked Gage Taylor to write something for the Art America website. Websites were still new for artists at that time. I am sharing this highly intimate interview once again as many issues are relevant now. Ten years before we met I was living and working in Germany, attached to Engineering and Programs with…