Six Tibetan Buddhist monks will be visiting from the Drepung Loseling Phukhang Monastery in South India to create a sand mandala in our museum. Sanskrit for “circle,” a mandala is a geometric figure with spiritual and ritual significance, often representing the cosmos. The monks will meticulously apply powdered pigments to an intricate outline, tapping little by little to get the image just right. When completed, the mandala blesses both the environment and its beings. The painstakingly created artwork will then be destroyed and scattered, spreading its peaceful benefits throughout the world. This is a key lesson of Buddhism: everything must come to an end. Nothing is permanent. This is a very special opportunity to see the monks creating a mandala. Don’t miss it. Starts tomorrow (Thursday) and lasts through Sunday. You can come tomorrow night after 5pm for just $5. More event details here. Six Tibetan Buddhist monks will be visiting from the Drepung Loseling Phukhang Monastery in South India to create a sand mandala in our museum. Sanskrit for “circle,” a mandala is a geometric figure with spiritual and ritual significance, often representing the cosmos. The monks will meticulously apply powdered pigments to an intricate outline, tapping little by little to get the image just right. When completed, the mandala blesses both the environment and its beings. The painstakingly created artwork will then be destroyed and scattered, spreading its peaceful benefits throughout the world. This is a key lesson of Buddhism: everything must come to an end. Nothing is permanent. This is a very special opportunity to see the monks creating a mandala. Don’t miss it. Starts tomorrow (Thursday) and lasts through Sunday. You can come tomorrow night after 5pm for just $5. More event details here. Six Tibetan Buddhist monks will be visiting from the Drepung Loseling Phukhang Monastery in South India to create a sand mandala in our museum. Sanskrit for “circle,” a mandala is a geometric figure with spiritual and ritual significance, often representing the cosmos. The monks will meticulously apply powdered pigments to an intricate outline, tapping little by little to get the image just right. When completed, the mandala blesses both the environment and its beings. The painstakingly created artwork will then be destroyed and scattered, spreading its peaceful benefits throughout the world. This is a key lesson of Buddhism: everything must come to an end. Nothing is permanent. This is a very special opportunity to see the monks creating a mandala. Don’t miss it. Starts tomorrow (Thursday) and lasts through Sunday. You can come tomorrow night after 5pm for just $5. More event details here. Six Tibetan Buddhist monks will be visiting from the Drepung Loseling Phukhang Monastery in South India to create a sand mandala in our museum. Sanskrit for “circle,” a mandala is a geometric figure with spiritual and ritual significance, often representing the cosmos. The monks will meticulously apply powdered pigments to an intricate outline, tapping little by little to get the image just right. When completed, the mandala blesses both the environment and its beings. The painstakingly created artwork will then be destroyed and scattered, spreading its peaceful benefits throughout the world. This is a key lesson of Buddhism: everything must come to an end. Nothing is permanent. This is a very special opportunity to see the monks creating a mandala. Don’t miss it. Starts tomorrow (Thursday) and lasts through Sunday. You can come tomorrow night after 5pm for just $5. More event details here.

Six Tibetan Buddhist monks will be visiting from the Drepung Loseling Phukhang Monastery in South India to create a sand mandala in our museum.

Sanskrit for “circle,” a mandala is a geometric figure with spiritual and ritual significance, often representing the cosmos. The monks will meticulously apply powdered pigments to an intricate outline, tapping little by little to get the image just right.

When completed, the mandala blesses both the environment and its beings. The painstakingly created artwork will then be destroyed and scattered, spreading its peaceful benefits throughout the world. This is a key lesson of Buddhism: everything must come to an end. Nothing is permanent.

This is a very special opportunity to see the monks creating a mandala. Don’t miss it. Starts tomorrow (Thursday) and lasts through Sunday. You can come tomorrow night after 5pm for just $5. More event details here.

  1. Date Posted Icon 15th August 2012
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"I think the Dalai Lama is an amazing individual, but I think that Tibetans in general are really centered in the heart, coming from a real warm place. Real compassion. I think that all of the years that Tibet spent focused on Buddhism kind of affected the collective consciousness of Tibet and just kinda stayed in. It’s so deeply inlaid in the culture."
— RIP Adam Yauch, aka MCA of the legendary one-and-only Beastie Boys, who had a real seminal role in the adolescence (and adulthood) of many. We wanted to share this quote by him, as we appreciate those with influential power who shine the light on certain things that otherwise may not have made their way into mainstream awareness.
  1. Date Posted Icon 4th May 2012
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