Mandala Arts

341. Antara (Indonesia) – September 13, 2005 Antara – The Indonesian National News Agency: ANOTHER MANDALA AIRCRAFT GROUNDED Jakarta, Sept 13 (ANTARA) – The Transportation Ministry has ordered the grounding of another aircraft belonging to Mandala Airlines after finding a problem in the aircraft. “Out of 10 to 11 MD and Boeing 737-200 aircraft ramp checked on Monday night at Terminal 1A and C of the Soekarno-Hatta airport, one B737-200 belonging to Mandala Airlines had to be grounded, ” the ministry’s director of certification of airworthiness, Iing Iskandar, said on Monday… . 342. New Straits Times (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) – September 7, 2005 New Straits Times (Malaysia): Glitches disrupt two flights A DAY after the crash of the Mandala Airlines aircraft in Medan, passengers in two planes had a scare. Mandala Airlines flight RI 020 flying Jakarta to Jambi, Sumatra, returned to Jakarta’s Soekarno- Hatta airport yesterday five minutes after takeoff when the pilot discovered a malfunction in the lights that indicate whether the landing gear of the Boeing 737-200 has been retracted. “The pilot turned back to have the lights checked. There was nothing wrong with… 343. – March 30, 2004 Monks creating mandala art with sand at Mt. SAC WALNUT — Sand flowed like paint for 11 monks from Tibet who spent Tuesday working on a mandala sand painting that will be created through Thursday at Mt. San Antonio College. Using more than 15 different colored sands, which the monks brought with them from Tibet, a stick called a chaklep is scraped against a metallic funnel, a chakpur, to dispense small amounts of sand into intricate patterns. Each of the Tibetans will spend at least 25 hours working on the mandala. The result:… 344. – March 30, 2004 Monks creating mandala art with sand at Mt. SAC WALNUT — Sand flowed like paint for 11 monks from Tibet who spent Tuesday working on a mandala sand painting that will be created through Thursday at Mt. San Antonio College. Using more than 15 different colored sands, which the monks brought with them from Tibet, a stick called a chaklep is scraped against a metallic funnel, a chakpur, to dispense small amounts of sand into intricate patterns. Each of the Tibetans will spend at least 25 hours working on the mandala. The result:… 345. Newcastle Herald (Australia) – August 12, 2003 Mum’s `threat’, Inquiry into woman’s release from Mandala CENTRAL Coast Health is conducting an internal inquiry after a psychotic woman who was discharged from Mandala psychiatric unit allegedly threatened her husband and two young children with a baseball bat only hours after her release. The investigation comes a week after Central Coast Health said it had reviewed its child-at-risk assessment procedures and had appointed additional staff to its child protection unit. The Central Coast Health assurance followed a recommendation by the… 346. – July 5, 2003 BOARDWALK BLESSINGS / TIBETAN MONKS WILL BRING MESSAGE OF UNITY AND PEACE TO ATLANTIC CITY Few people think of Atlantic City as a spiritual place. After all, slot machines and scantily clad women carrying trays of liquor are seldom associated with meditation and introspection. But there will be a lot of spiritual activity on the Boardwalk next week when a group of Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery come to town next week to construct a sand mandala and perform sacred music and dances. Their visit is the first event in the Stockton Performing Arts… 347. The Advocate (Baton Rouge, La. ) – November 21, 2001 Healing blessing Tibetan Buddhist monks sweep up sand from a mandala sand painting at the University Art Museum at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The monks created the mandala from millions of grains of colored sand in 20 hours in late September. On Tuesday, they swept the sand into an urn and dumped the contents into the Vermilion River. The ceremony is meant to spread a healing blessing down the river, to the ocean and throughout the world. Left: Geshey Kunkyon, center, prays over the… 348. Cairns Post, The (Australia) – August 7, 2001 Learning goes green THE architectural and spiritual principles of a Mandala garden are seriously challenged where children are involved. To start with a circular garden that provides access through its middle and at its outside edge about 3m away for picking and planting, should not be difficult. The intention to construct a Mandala garden at Trinity Anglican School’s Kewarra Beach campus was not so much for the spiritual significance of Mandala (which is Sanskrit for circle), but a sensible… 349. – January 1, 2000 TIBETAN MONKS SPEND WEEK MAKING A ‘MANDALA’ SAND DESIGN, THEN POUR IT IN BALTIMORE HARBOR Made When Healing is Needed In Baltimore recently, ten Tibetan Buddhist monks, who had been staying on a yacht in the Inner Harbor, spent a week creating a mandala–a design made using different colors of sand–on the floor of the American Visionary Art Museum. As described in a news story, a mandala is “an ancient and exquisite form of Tibetan art that is a key part of Buddhism. “The monks worked for as long as 12 hours at a time, the story said, “using simple tools to… 0. – August 12, 1996 BUDDHISTS DEMONSTRATE FLEETING NATURE OF LIFE U. S. TOUR A FUND-RAISER FOR INDIAN MONASTERY A stroke of on-line karma brought a dose of Buddhism to the Presbyterian Church of Los Gatos, but not for long. And that was precisely the point of the intricate sand mandala eight Tibetan monks created on the floor of the church’s social hall – and destroyed Sunday night in a graphic demonstration of the fleeting nature of life. ”Nothing is permanent, ” mused parishioner Jean Cline as she gazed down at the rainbow-hued design…