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Mindweathersong Collaborative Lockdown Diary 

Integrating Art, Dharma and Daily Life as practice

 

Book Planning and Bibliography

Proposed chapter outline:

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  1. Introduction

    1. What Mindweathersong is

    2. How Mindweathersong came about

    3. Discussion on relationship between Dharma, art and everyday life practices, mentioning our reflections on experiencing the Mindweathersong practice which are in more detail in the Diary section

    4. Explanation of the Guidelines created for doing Mindweathersong

    5. Aims and scope of book

  2. The diary itself

    1. Selected diary images with creative writing in response to images

    2. Reflections on how our processes of meditating, contemplating, creating and everyday living during lockdown inter-relate

  3. Appendix

    1. Exercises for doing Mindweathersong, differentiated for beginners or more experienced people

  4. Biographies of the authors

  5. Acknowledgements

  6. Bibliography

  7. Index​

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Bibliography

 

BOOKS

  1. Ed. Baas, J, and Jacob, M.J. 2004. Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art. University of California Press, Berkeley

  2. Baas, J. 2005. Smile of the Buddha - Eastern Philosophy and Western Art from Monet Until Today. University of California Press, Berkeley

  3. Barnes, M. 2012. Shadow Catchers: Camera-less Photography. Merrell

  4. Britton, D. 2002. A Haiku Journey, Basho's Narrow Road to a Far Province. Kodansha International

  5. Blum, H (Ed). 2016. Dancing With Dharma, Essays on Movement and Dance in Western Buddhism. McFarland and Co, North Carolina

  6. Dahl, C. 2009. Pointing Out the Dharmakaya. Tergar International

  7. Daichendt, C.J. 2012. Artist Scholar, Reflections on Writing and Research. University of Chicago Press

  8. Damrosch, L. 2015. Eternity's Sunrise, The imaginative World of William Blake, Yale University Press, Newhaven and London

  9. Danvers, J. 2006. Picturing Mind - Paradox, Indeterminacy and Consciousness in Art and Poetry. Rodophi, Amsterdam, New York

  10. Danvers, J. 2012. Agents of Uncertainty - Mysticism, Scepticism, Buddhism, Art and Poetry. Rodophi, Amsterdam, New York

  11. Dorje, W. 2001. Mahamudra, The Ocean of Definitive Meaning. Nithartha International

  12. Franklin, M.A. 2017. Art as Contemplative Practice, Expressive Pathways to the Self, SUNY Press, Albany

  13. Graham, B. and Cook, S. 2015. Rethinking Curating. MIT Press, Cambridge Massachusetts and London

  14. Gray,C and Malins, J. 2004. Visualizing Research, A Guide to Research Processes in Art and Design. Ashgate, Hants

  15. Lhadrepa, K,and Davis, C. 2018. The Art of Awakening, a Users Guide to Tibetan Buddhis Art and Practice. Snow Lion, Boulder

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  17. London, P. 1989. No More Secondhand Art - Awakening the Artist Within. Shambhala, Boston

  18. Loori, J.D. 2004. The Zen of Creativity - Cultivating Your Artistic Life. Ballantine Books, USA

  19. Robins, A. 2009. Slow Art - Painting and Drawing as a Meditative Process. VDM Verlag, Germany

  20. Park, J. 2006. Buddhism and Deconstructions. Rowan and Littlefield Inc.

  21. Rinpoche, Mingyur. 2004. Three Words that Strike the Vital Point, Commentary by Mingyur Rinpoche. Vajravairochana Translation Committee (restricted text)

  22. Rinpoche, Mingyur. 2007. The Joy of Living. Harmony Books, USA

  23. Rinpoche, Mingyur. 2010. Joyful Wisdom. Bantam

  24. Rinpoche, Mingyur. 2014. Turning Confusion Into Clarity. Snow Lion, Boston

  25. Rinpoche, T.W. 2018. Spontaneous Creativity, Meditations For Manifesting Positive Qualities, Hay House, New York, London

  26. Rinpoche, Thrangu and Schefczyk, S. 2002. Everyday Consciousness and Buddha Awakening. Snow Lion, Boston

  27. Rinpoche, Tsoknyi. 2003. Fearless Simplicity. Rangjung Yeshe Publications, Kathmandu

  28. Rinpoche, Urgyen. 1995. Rainbow Painting. Rangjung Yeshe Publications, Kathmandu

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  30. SDU, 1990. Art Meets Science and Spirituality in a Changing Economy. SDU Publications

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  33. Tanahashi, K. 1990. Brush Mind. Parallax, California

  34. Terayama, T. 2003. Zen Brushwork, Focusing the Mind with Calligraphy and Painting. Kodansha International, London

  35. Thatcher, C. 2008. Just Seeing, Insight Meditation and Sense Perception. Buddhist Publication Society Inc. Sri Lanka

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  39. Weschler, L. 2008. Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees, Over 30 Years of Conversation with Robert Irwin. Shambhala, Boston

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  43. Yoon, J. 2010. Spirituality in Contemporary Art - The Idea of the Numinous. Zidane Press, London

 

PAPERS

  1. Hsieh, S.L. Buddhist meditation as art practice [electronic resource] : art practice as Buddhist meditation. 2010; Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10145/122049.

  2. Lefebvre Sell, N.a., dharmakaya : an investigation into the impact of mindful meditation on dancers' creative processes in a choreographic environment. 2013, City University London.

  3. Los Angeles County Museum of, A. and B. Salvesen, See the light : photography, perception, cognition : the Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection.

  4. Sasibala, Buddhist art and thought. [1st ed.]. ed. 2007, New Delhi: Akshaya Prakashan.

 

ONLINE RESOURCES

 

Buddhist:

  1. Versions of Ganges Mahamudra: http://www.naturalawareness.net/ganges.html

 

Contemporary Artists:

  1. Pousette-Dart, R. Richard Pousette-Dart Speaking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XN25-RJBW0

  2. Paintings by Richard Pousette-Dart on View at the Guggenheim Museum. [online] Available at: http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/press-room/releases/press-release-archive/2007/563-paintings-by-richard-pousette-dart-on-view-at-the-solomon-r-guggenheim-museum [Accessed 1 Jan. 2015].

  3. Richard Tuttle: Artists are like clouds. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEoZpS4AWLw [Accessed 1 Jan. 2015].

  4. Rinpoche, Dzigar Kongtrul, On Painting, Natural Vitality. http://www.kongtruljigme.com/onpainting.php

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