A Buddhist Perspective on the World and Its Transcendence 

A Buddhist Perspective on the World and Its Transcendence 

Public Lecture with Ayya Piyadassī (Aloka Centre)

July 22, 6 pm

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What do Buddhists mean by “the world”? What does it consist of, and why should it be “transcended”? This lecture invites us to view the world through a Buddhist lens – exploring what constitutes it, which characteristics are common to all forms of life, and why the goal of the Buddhist path is to transcend the world while helping others do the same. Both the external world – Buddhist cosmology – and the internal world – Buddhist psychology – will be considered, along with the points at which they intersect and what lies beyond them. 

Ayya Piyadassī is a Theravāda Buddhist nun of Lithuanian descent. She has been practising Buddhist meditation since 2007, and since 2013 she has done so as an ordained nun. In Myanmar, where she was ordained and spent nearly seven years, she not only deepened her meditation practice but also completed a master’s degree in Buddhism and the Pali language. Currently, under the guidance of Venerable Luangta Narongsak, a monk of the Thai forest tradition, she lives and teaches Buddhist theory and practice at the Aloka Centre in Klaipėda District.

Lecture is part of the public program accompanying the exhibition Another Turn of the Sleepers.

Please note that filming and photography may take place during the event.

Photo from the personal archive of Ayya Piyadassī.

Curator Jolanta Marcišauskytė-Jurašienė  

Architect Ieva Cicėnaitė  

Graphic Designer Laura Grigaliūnaitė  

Film Authors: Gintaras Šeputis, Jolanta Marcišauskytė-Jurašienė  

Sound Installation Creators:  

Composer: Agnė Matulevičiūtė  

Voice: Gediminas Rimeika  

Poetry: Linas Leonas Katinas  

Sign Language Interpretation: Raimonda Vaičeliūnienė, Birutė Šimkienė, Lijana Čiplienė 

Cinematographer: Dinas Marcinkevičius 

Video Editing: Arnas Dambrauskas 

Translation and Editing: Alexandra Bondarev  

Technical Production of the Exhibition: Irmantas Kuskys (MB „Irsaul“), Vadim Šamkov, Liudvikas Kesminas, Rytis Urbanskas  

Exhibition Lighting Designer: Renaldas Bartulis  

All works by Linas Leonas Katinas presented in the exhibition belong to the collection of the physician Virgilijus Novaiša. 

The exhibition’s advertising campaign features the work Crooked Cloud (1970) by Linas Leonas Katinas.  

 Organised by Stasys Museum  

Financed by Panevėžys City Municipality

Sponsored by UAB „Kalnapilio-Tauro“ grupė, OWEXX, 2go

Media partner LRT

Programme of Accompanying Events Another Turn of the Sleepers