Mandala Arts

… 41. – January 16, 2003 GRAIN BY GRAIN: TWO DAYS LEFT WHAT IT IS: A Tibetan sand mandala created by monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastary. In Sanskrit, this particular “Akshobya” mandala symbolizes healing and indestructibility. The monks, who began making the mandala out of marble sand on Jan. 13 (SEE CORRECTION) at the Telfair Museum of Art, will complete the mandala over the next two days. Meant to bring positive energies and healing to the Savannah area, the mandala is an exact replica of the one created at the… 42. – February 14, 2000 SHARING `SACRED ENERGY’ MONKS BUILD MANDALA DURING EPISCOPAL EVENT With a few swipes of a paintbrush, the brightly colored sand that had been a Tibetan mandala lay in a heap, a metaphor of the impermanence of life. Nine Tibetan Buddhist monks spent three days constructing the mandala from millions of grains of exquisitely colored sand, carefully laid into place on a black platform. Shortly after completing the mandala yesterday, the monks blessed it and dismantled it. Half of the sand was given to the 300 people who came to watch. The other half went… 80 143. Los Angeles Times – December 16, 1995 Calabasas Mandala Ceremony Caps Lesson in Peace Nelson, a 16-year-old incarcerated at a youth detention center in Calabasas, believes he has found a way to break the cycle of failure that has been his life. And he says he owes it all to kindly Tibetan monks. With the monks looking on, he stood on a pier above the surf in Malibu on Thursday, scattering the contents of an urn into the wind. A greenish plume was all that remained of a brilliant, multicolored sand painting, or “mandala, ” created by Nelson and other… 44. Central Coast Express (Sydney, Australia) – November 30, 2001 Mandala upgrade to boost security Mandala security upgrade GOSFORD Hospital’s troubled Mandala mental health unit will close for two months in the new year for work to deal with its recognised security problems. A surgical ward will be closed to house a temporary 20-bed mental health unit during the work. But the wife of a patient killed at Mandala early this year has told NSW Centre for Mental Health director Beverly Raphael the refurbishments are a “Band-Aid” response to a failed state mental health… 45. Boston Globe – March 25, 1980 REVIEW / DANCE MANDALA’S FAMILY CIRCLE MANDALA FOLK DANCE ENSEMBLE – At John Hancock Hall, Saturday. In a time when dance is dominated by a handful of star personalities and their political and artistic highjinks, Mandala reminds us that submergence of self in a group effort can produce dance that is as exciting as any superstar’s grand jete. Mandala’s 31 members are students and working people from the Cambridge area, who donate their time to what is nonetheless one of the… 6. Broadcasting and Cable – March 23, 2009 U’s Mandala Running With the Bulls As head of cable sales, Steve Mandala, 45, is among Universal’s most important advertising executives. The company’s cable channels–which deliver viewers a cornucopia of popular shows, from Bravo’s gold-digging housewives to Sci Fi’s Ghost Hunters –are a multi-billion-dollar business and, when added together, tally higher in earnings than their Peacock Network sibling. But Mandala’s value has less to do with his laurels… 47. – January 17, 2008 Mandala 2. 0 Likes Ludwig as Synesthesia Ships 3GB Sample Library from Vintage Super-Sensitive Black Beauty Snare Packaging the soul of a classic with the spirit of the new, Synesthesia Corporation (http://www. synesthesiacorp. com) is offering 3 gigabytes of Ludwig Black Beauty samples with its new Mandala 2. 0 High-Def Drum & Synthesizer. The company made its announcement as the industry convenes at the annual National Association of Music Manufacturers show here. To give players the top-of-the-line, most accurate model of a physical drum, Synesthesia sampled a vintage 5 x14 Black Beauty… 48. Chapel Hill News, The – September 22, 2004 Circle of life One person at a time is adding a new bold handprint, intricately penciled design or abstract splash of color to the paper “mandala” in the works this week at the Century Center in Carrboro. Tuesday morning Thea Lance, age 7, created a flower-like drawing while soft instrumental music played in the background. She was out of school for the day because an uncle was in town for a visit. Thea brushed her blond hair off her shoulders and sat with her elbows on… 49. Daily Messenger (Canandaigua, NY) – October 5, 2007 Here today, gone Monday Creating a mandala – a ritual Buddhist sand painting – is a surprisingly noisy ritual. The falling sand doesn’t make much of a noise, but the artist’s tools do. The Venerable Tenzin Yignyen is currently putting the finishing touches on a ” mandala of compassion” at Finger Lakes Community College – and he manipulates the tools of the trade with deft, surgical precision. First, he pours the sand into a metal, funnel-shaped tube. Then he… 50. – August 25, 2005 ART NOTES For the next six weeks in the rotunda of Cleveland’s City Hall, three Tibetan lamas will create the “wheel of time” in sand, a sacred Kalachakra mandala, considered a masterpiece of Tibetan ritual art. The painstaking process of laying millions of colorful grains of sand into the intricate design will begin at 10 a. m. Saturday with a traditional opening ceremony to honor the mandala. Circle of Compassion: The Sand Mandala Painting of Tibet, is presented…

. 131. Anthem View (Las Vegas, NV) – April 4, 2006 Downtown studio joins Third Thursday event, Couple opens Mandala to share their circle art with community When Steve “Buck” Bruce and Sophia Andras opened Mandala Studios in downtown Henderson a few weeks ago, they offered art lovers and Third Thursday festival-goers more than just the chance to look at and purchase their paintings. The couple has opened their studio to community members interested in creating their own mandalas. “We offer this to anyone who wants to have fun and creativity, ” Andras said. The word mandala comes from the… 32. Messenger – Guardian (Adelaide, Australia) – March 5, 2003 COME OUT THEME HAS A RIPPLING EFFECT WHEN thousands of children converge on Elder Park next Tuesday, March 11, to mark the start of Come Out 2003, they will form a large human mandala on the lawn. The image will be a culmination of months of work they have put into researching the mandala theme and creating their own circular images. It will also be a defining moment for festival director Sally Chance and her arts education assistant Emma Zakarevicius, who together dreamed up the mandala concept and the major festival… 33. Messenger – Southern (Adelaide, Australia) – March 5, 2003 COME OUT 2003 THEME HAS A RIPPLING EFFECT WHEN thousands of children converge on Elder Park next Tuesday, March 11, to mark the start of Come Out 2003, they will form a large human mandala on the lawn. The image will be a culmination of months of work they have put into researching the mandala theme and creating own circular images. It will also be a defining moment for festival director Sally Chance and her arts education assistant Emma Zakarevicius, who together dreamed up the mandala concept and the major festival… 34. The Denver Post – January 31, 1994 Monks will build mandala to combat Denver violence Tibetan monks from the Ganden Jangtse monastery in south India will enlist 2, 600 years of spiritual tradition to combat violence in Denver as they construct a mandala, a sacred sand painting, this week at the Denver Art Museum. “All the mandalas are from the teachings of the Buddha. There are literally thousands of different mandalas, and each mandala represents and embodies a particular teaching of the Buddha, ” said Barry Bryant. Bryant is author of… 35. The Denver Post – January 31, 1994 The Spirit of the Sand Monks will build mandala to combat Denver violence Tibetan monks from the Ganden Jangtse monastery in south India will enlist 2, 600 years of spiritual tradition to combat violence in Denver as they construct a mandala, a sacred sand painting, this week at the Denver Art Museum. “All the mandalas are from the teachings of the Buddha. There are literally thousands of different mandalas, and each mandala represents and embodies a particular teaching of the Buddha, ” said Barry Bryant. Bryant is author of… 5 136. – March 8, 2007 HEALING SAND, Tibetan monks accomplish their mission to Slidell For five days last week the doors of Slidell Municipal Auditorium were open to visitors hoping to capture a glimpse of the monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery creating a mandala, a Sanskrit word meaning sacred cosmogram, designed for one purpose: To heal Slidell and its inhabitants before being destroyed. The mandala’s mission was completed Saturday. The monks who had created the mandala consecrated it before dismantling the work of art, scooping the sand into tiny… 83 137. El Nuevo Herald – February 5, 2002 COMIENZA LA COSTRUCCI�N DEL MANDALA Los monjes tibetanos del monasterio Drepung Loseling regresan nuevamente a Miami y se presetar�n en el Miami Dade Comunity College desde el pr�ximo 5 de febrero a las 6:30 pm para entonces dar a conocer su filosof�a y realizar su sacro ritual, que es la construcci�n de un mandala, pintura sagrada hecha con arena cuya finalidad es producir un efecto purificador y de curaci�n del mundo divino, la mente y las energ�as del cuerpo humano. El ritual ser� dirigido por nueve monjes en una… 38. The Hartford Courant – March 25, 1994 ART DESTROYED IN SHOW OF FAITH With a corporate jet streaking overhead Thursday afternoon, the Venerable Lobsang Samten, a Tibetan Buddhist monk, tossed a month’s painstaking work – an exquisite 5 – foot – in – diameter colored sand mandala – into the Connecticut River in a dramatic demonstration of the Buddhist principle of impermanence. Many of the nearly 150 onlookers had followed Samten’s progress over four weeks as he constructed the mandala at Trinity College’s Austin Arts… 139. – March 10, 2004 ROUND OUT YOUR ART EDUCATION AT BUDDHIST EXHIBIT Circles are all around us. Think of the circles you see every day — the sun, a wheel, a doughnut. A circle is one of the basic shapes in Buddhist art. Mandala is a Sanskrit word meaning circle. A mandala is a sacred design used in meditation by Buddhists. Meditation is a deep state of concentration in which a person clears his or her mind of all distracting thoughts. Mandalas, which help people focus their thoughts, can be both two- and three-dimensional. They often are painted on… 40. – December 7, 2003 SAND MANDALA CONSTRUCTION AMONG TIBETAN FESTIVAL EVENTS When 10-year-old Tenzin Deshek escaped across the Himalayas from his native Tibet in advance of the invading Chinese army, he brought with him centuries of cultural traditions. Years of study with the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India, earned him the equivalent of a master’s degree, and he’s taught Buddhism in places as far afield as Mongolia and Ithaca, N. Y. Along the way, he learned the uncommon skill of sand mandala construction. Deshek demonstrates that…