Discover BIA’s Dhamma Delights

Among Buddhadasa Bhikkhu’s unique approaches to sharing the Dhamma is to nourish human beings’ intrinsic need for entertainment—the fifth requisite of life along with food, clothing, shelter and medicine. Entertainment venues are necessary, and should be flavored with Dhamma to help stimulate healthy spiritual inquiry. 

BIA’s creators took this legacy as paramount for their design, establishing a Dhamma edutainment center unique to the world. 

The resulting natural and spiritual theater allows minds and hearts to reflect on and absorb the Dhamma through a variety of means beyond written and spoken words.

Many of these offerings are replicas from Buddhadasa Bhikkhu’s Suan Mokkh monastery, such as ancient relief sculpture from the earliest Buddhist shrines in India along with numerous paintings, statues and other artwork from all major Buddhist schools. 

These exhibits are integrated into gardens, landscaping and architectural features that reinforce Buddhadasa Bhikkhu’s own teachings on the importance of simplicity and the natural world to cultivating our understanding of the Dhamma. 

Works depicting different forms of formal meditation and mindfulness practice complement inviting practice areas, which themselves heighten the uniqueness and beauty of this Dhamma exposition. 

Come discover these Dhamma Delights on your own at anytime during BIA’s operating hours or join us the first Sunday of each month for a Taste of Liberation.