Mandala Arts

321. – September 20, 2007 Quilt stolen from wall of Sweetwater nightclub Sweetwater owner Becky Steere opened the doors of the hallowed Mill Valley nightclub Wednesday morning to discover someone had stolen the mandala quilt that hangs beside the stage. “I gasped, ” she said. “It was like someone socked me in the chest. “She compared it to stealing an icon from a church. “It’s the heart of Sweetwater, ” she said. “This is like tearing out our heart. Who would do… 322. AFX UK Focus – September 20, 2007 AFX UK (Focus): Indonesia’s Mandala Airlines to switch to Airbus JAKARTA (Thomson Financial) – Indonesia’s Mandala Airlines has rented Airbus planes as it begins switching from Boeing 737s to a full fleet from the European manufacturer, a company spokesman said Thursday. Mandala ordered 25 single-aisled Airbus A320s in June at the Paris Air Show in a deal worth 1. 9 billion dollars at catalogue prices. Mandala spokesman Alexius Wijoyo Tjundo said the first orders would arrive in 2011 with the rest expected to be delivered by 2014… . 323. AFX Europe Focus – September 20, 2007 AFX Europe (Focus): Indonesia’s Mandala Airlines to switch to Airbus JAKARTA (Thomson Financial) – Indonesia’s Mandala Airlines has rented Airbus planes as it begins switching from Boeing 737s to a full fleet from the European manufacturer, a company spokesman said Thursday. Mandala ordered 25 single-aisled Airbus A320s in June at the Paris Air Show in a deal worth 1. 9 billion dollars at catalogue prices. Mandala spokesman Alexius Wijoyo Tjundo said the first orders would arrive in 2011 with the rest expected to be delivered by 2014… . 324. AFX Asia Focus – September 20, 2007 AFX Asia (Focus): Indonesia’s Mandala Airlines to switch to Airbus JAKARTA (Thomson Financial) – Indonesia’s Mandala Airlines has rented Airbus planes as it begins switching from Boeing 737s to a full fleet from the European manufacturer, a company spokesman said Thursday. Mandala ordered 25 single-aisled Airbus A320s in June at the Paris Air Show in a deal worth 1. 9 billion dollars at catalogue prices. Mandala spokesman Alexius Wijoyo Tjundo said the first orders would arrive in 2011 with the rest expected to be delivered by 2014… . 325. Hindu, The (Madras, India) – January 11, 2006 The Hindu: Kalachakra Mandala construction in its final stage The construction of sand Mandala, essential for the Kalachakra initiation ceremony, reached its final stage on Tuesday as the Dalai Lama has completed his final discourse from the selected chapters of Nagarjuna’s `Mulamadhyamikakarita. ‘ “True happiness is determined by our state of mind. Transforming the mind is a mental activity employing both insight and the stability of mind that comes of meditative equipoise, ” he said… . 326. – January 27, 2005 7 NUNS TO CREATE MANDALA On Friday at Trinity College’s Austin Arts Center seven Buddhist nuns from the Keydong nunnery in Kathmandu will start making a mandala for the Buddhist deity of peace, Avaolokitreshvara. The nuns first came to Trinity in 1998 and are among the first to learn this sacred practice, which was previously for monks only. The A mandala is a model of a celestial palace and is architecturally complex. It’s adorned with symbols and imagery that represents the path one can… 7. Leader – Cranbourne Sun (Melbourne, Australia) – July 14, 2004 Broad canvas for little know mandala art SPIRALLING flights of colourful fancy are mandala painter Nola Gibson’s speciality. “Not many people in Australia really know what mandalas are, but they are a style of art which is common to many cultures around the world, ” she said. “The theme of a kaleidoscope pattern around a central point is a very common theme in the sand mandalas of the native American and Tibetan people, and can be seen in other Asian cultures. “As well as patterns I… 328. Leader – Berwick Leader (Melbourne, Australia) – July 14, 2004 Lessons in mandala art SPIRALLING flights of colourful fancy are mandala painter Nola Gibson’s speciality. “Not many people in Australia really know what mandalas are, but they are a style of art which is common to many cultures around the world, ” she said. “The theme of a kaleidoscope pattern around a central point is a very common theme in the sand mandalas of the native American and Tibetan people, and can be seen in other Asian cultures. “As well as patterns I… 329. – May 10, 2004 NOTHING IN LIFE IS PERMANENT Some people might define suffering as spending days painstakingly creating a detailed work of art only to have it destroyed. That couldn’t be further from the truth for the 11 touring Tibetan Buddhist monks who visited Evansville last week to create a colorful sand mandala in commemoration of the Evansville Museum’s 100th anniversary. Hundreds of visitors gathered Sunday afternoon to watch the monks ritually destroy the intricate artwork and ceremoniously pour it… 330. – April 11, 2003 Monks will perform sand painting rite Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Drepung Loseling Institute will demonstrate the unusual tradition of mandala sand painting Wednesday through April 19 in the lobby of Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts, 222 Market St. , Harrisburg. Among all the arts that go with the monks’ faith of Tantric Buddhism, the mandala paintings rank among the most exquisite. Over four days, they will create a picture using millions of grains of colored sand that are painstakingly…