Mandala Arts

731 – 740 731. – July 19, 2005 Bookstore tells quite a tale Mandala’s fountain of knowledge awaits DAYTONA BEACH – An art student thumbs through photo anthologies; a retired professor looks for instruction on shooting guns. Tourists drop by for a quick read, and collectors from halfway across the country settle in for a two-day hunt of anything rare and valuable, blowing a little dust and breathing deep the pulpy smells of countless pages. Mandala Books, a maze-like, claustrophobic sanctuary for book lovers since 1979, attracts all sorts, for all sorts of reasons, and that’s… 732. (LANCASTER, PA. ) – October 4, 2003 Tibetan sand painting planned A sand mandala, a sacred Tibetan sand painting, will be created at the Phillips Museum of Art from Oct. 15 through 29. The public is welcome to watch Tibetan Buddhist the Venerable Losang Samten work on the mandala during museum hours, Tuesday through Friday, 11:30 a. m. to 4:30 p. m. and Saturday and Sunday from 12:30 to 4:30 p. m. The opening ceremony will be held Thursday, Oct. 16 at 4:30 p. m. and the closing ceremony, during which the mandala will be dismantled and poured… 733. – September 6, 2003 Three chords and the truth Tibetan Monks To Perform Sacred Music Sacred Dance for World Healing at Cache Valley Center for the Arts Sept. 18 and 20, with Sand Mandala Painting Sept. 17-20 The celebrated multiphonic singers of Tibet’s Drepung Loseling Monastery, whose sellout performances in Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center received national acclaim, will perform at the Ellen Eccles Theatre Sept. 18 and 20 at 7:30 p. m. as part of their international tour of Sacred Music Sacred Dance for World Healing… . 734. Newcastle Herald (Australia) – February 19, 2003 Mental health carers’ outcry, Transition centre on Coast `vital’ OPPOSITION health spokeswoman Jillian Skinner has backed mental health carers who are calling for Gosford’s Mandala psychiatric unit to become a transition centre for the mentally ill. The centre was needed urgently to prevent more suicides by people discharged prematurely from Mandala because of a chronic bed shortage, Mrs Skinner was told yesterday. During an emotional meeting at Kincumber, a woman whose teenage son committed suicide within 12 hours of being discharged… 5. – January 25, 1997 Like Sand Through the Hourglass… Buddhist Monks Demonstrate Mystical Arts of Tibet STILLWATER — Only a soft rhythmic tapping sound could be heard as Tibetan Buddhist monks quietly bent over a platform to create their sacred art, a mandala sand painting, on the Oklahoma State University campus this week. The monks were carefully tapping to pour sand from golden horns, adding the vividly colored grains a few at a time to their creation. Despite the presence of cameras, flash bulbs and curious watchers, the burgundy-robed monks focused on their pain-staking work, only… 736. The Daily Oklahoman – January 23, 1997 Sand Art Created By Tibetan Monks Visitors Seek to Publicize Political Woes STILLWATER – Hovering over a five-foot-by-five-foot table, the burgundy-robed men study, measure and mark the surface in the beginning stages of a timeless Tibetan art. Creating a sand mandala, an incredibly precise form of sand painting, a group of Tibetan monks is visiting Oklahoma State University’s Gardiner Art Gallery this week as part of their effort to share their art and raise awareness of the political subjugation of Tibet. “They travel to contribute… 737. – January 4, 1992 Science and karma, 3M teams up with Tibetan monks Take a band of monks from the ancient Himalayan land of Tibet who spend their time, as they have for centuries, creating intricate sand mandalas that they then ritually pour into rivers. Very Buddhist. Then take a team of scientists who spend their time analyzing glue and devising the best, most efficient ways to make Post-It notes and asphalt roofing. Very Minnesotan. Put the two together and you get a cultural collision that might be called… 738. Newstex Blogs (USA) – July 13, 2009 Obit: Former ABC TV Chief Mark Mandala Jul. 13, 2009 ( The Wrap delivered by Newstex) Mark A. Mandala, the former president of ABC TV Network, died Saturday, while playing golf near his home in Vermont. He was 72. Mandala joined ABC in 1962, working both in sales and management positions in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and New York. In 1983, he was promoted to president of the ABC Owned Television Stations division, and in 1986 he was promoted to president of the network. He retired in 1994. A reception… 739. Straits Times, The (Singapore) – April 21, 2009 Statues ‘bought by monastery, not shop’, Witness says Ming Yi’s aide later asked for a letter stating otherwise A CRAFTSMAN from China said in court yesterday that his company was told to draft a letter stating that it had sold two Buddha statues to the Mandala Buddhist Cultural Centre, an artefacts shop here. But the reality was that the statues had been paid for by the Foo Hai Ch’an Monastery, where former Ren Ci Hospital chief Ming Yi is abbot. Mandala is a business set up in 1996 by Ming Yi and other partners, the profits of which were to be channelled to Ren Ci. Mr Zhang… 740. Western Suburbs Weekly (Perth, Australia) – February 12, 2008 Monks a hit at grammar school Venerable Thupten Lodey empties the remains of the sand mandala into the river. Picture: Will Russell d279618 SOME serious breaches of the uniform code were overlooked in the name of spiritual unity at Christ Church Grammar School in Claremont last week. A group of Tibetan Buddhist monks became part of the school community, helping to celebrate the first week of the academic year by creating a sand mandala. Hailing from Gyuto Tantric Monastery in Northern India, near Dharamsala, …