THE BILLIONAIRE BUDDHA
The Billionaire Buddha is a metaphor that says peace, health and happiness in this life can be achieved by cultivation of the inner and outer worlds. The Buddha is the culmination of inner success and the Billionaire the epitome of material success. The paradigm of the Billionaire Buddha is that one must focus on both to achieve lasting peace in this world. This is in contrast to the prevailing one sided paradigms of either pursuing success in the material world or giving it up alltogether to seek spirituality.
CONTEMPORIZING THE BODHISATTVA

Experiencing Arjuna's work is like taking a walk into a territory where one discovers elements, emotions and thoughts of the artist. Imagery that is culled from his conscious and subconscious mind manifest on the canvas teasing both the viewer's eye and the mind to engage with them. The central figure of the Lord Buddha is key to the composition as his avatars manifests in the centre of the composition. Arjun's interpretation reinvents the Buddhist Thanka style adapting it to oil on canvas and bringing to it a modernist methodology.

However, where the magic realism really happens is in the surrounding dreamscape around the Lord Buddha, the wild birds and beasts, the intoxicating flowers that drip colour in a maddening palette, and the evocation of the cosmos through the expressionstic swirls and motifs that create a sense of energy and vivacity around the canvas drawing you in to the reverie.

Arjuna has many years of training in art especially in classical drawing and painting as well as in martial arts, mediation and music-- both classical as well as contemporary. All these aspects are a way of life that enrich his journey as an artist.

They complete his creative cycle and bring to his canvases that sense of completion and fulfilment that may be then further derived from his work.

Georgina Maddox, Critic-Curator

New Delhi, January 2023

Inner-Stellar Space Travel
Oil on canvas, 61 x 91 cm, 2 x 3 ft, 2022
Buddha Nature
Oil on canvas, 61 x 91 cm, 2 x 3 ft, 2022
Buddha in the Jungle Hood Saving All Beings
Oil on Linen, 61 x 91 cm, 2 x 3 ft
Man to Superman
Oil on Canvas, 61 x 122 cm, 2 x 4 ft, 2021
Vipassana – Penetrative Insight
Oil on Linen, 91 x 122 cm, 3 x 4 ft, 2022
The Monsoon Clouds of Prana: Central Channel Entry: Light Body Construction
Oil on Canvas, 122 x 153 cm, 4 x 5 ft, 2020
Buddha Mind
Oil on Canvas, 152 x 152 cm, 5 x 5 ft, 2022
Form is Form, Emptiness is Emptiness
Oil on Canvas, 46 x 61 cm, 18 x 24 Inches, 2021
Bodhicitta
Oil on Linen, 122 x 153 cm, 4 x 5 ft, 2022
Lion Heart of Courage, Nirvana, Infinite Fearlessness
Oil on Canvas, 91 x 122 cm, 3 x 4 ft, 2020
Anuttara Samyak Sambodhi, The Peak of Utter Unexcelled Enlightenment
Digital Print using Epson Archival Inks on Heavy Archival Hahnemuhle paper, 80 x 108 cm, 31 x 42 Inches, 2023 - Limited Edition of 10
Ocean Seal Samadhi with James Webb Telescope Image
Digital Print using Epson Archival Inks on Heavy Archival Hahnemuhle paper, 60 x 60 cm, 2 x 2 ft, 2022 - Limited Edition of 10
The 4 Higher Chakras
Digital Print using Epson Archival Inks on Heavy Archival Hahnemuhle paper, 42 x 175cm, 17 x 72 Inches, 2022-Limited Edition of 10
Buddha, Dry pastel on paper
20 x 30 cm, 2022
The emptiness gaze, 20 x 30 cm
Dry pastel on paper, 2019
Buddha, Dry pastel on paper
20 x 30 cm, 2022
Cosmic Consciousness, Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
76 x 84 cm, 30 x 33 Inches, 2022
Ocean Seal Samadhi 2
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas, 84 x 92 cm, 33 x 36 Inches, 2022
Dhyana, Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
84 x 91 cm, 33 x 36 Inches, 2022
Buddha Rides Into the Hell Realms on the Black Swan, Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
61 x 132 cm, 24 x 52 Inches, 2022
The Birth of the Sambhogakaya, the Enjoyment Body
Oil on Canvas, 61 x 122 cm, 2 x 4 ft, 2020
Jungle Tantra
Oil on Linen, 91 x 122 cm, 3x 4 ft, 2022
Courage Lion Heart Buddha, Oil on Canvas
61 x 76 cm, 24 x 30 Inches, 2020
Mahavir Zen
Oil on Canvas, 30 x 40 cm, 2021
Samurai Buddha
Oil on Canvas, 20 x 40 cm, 2018
The Blossoming of consciousness
Oil on Canvas, 30 x 40 cm, 2022
The Blossoming of consciousness
Oil on Canvas, 30 x 40 cm, 2022
Moksha Dhian
Oil on Canvas, 20 x 40 cm, 2018
Buddha Riding Wind Horse
Acrylic on Canvas, 91 x 122 cm, 3 x 4 ft, 2019