Mandala Arts

. 611. Fairfield County Weekly (Bridgeport, CT) – February 3, 2000 Andrew Pham left Vietnam as a child in a leaking boat and returned 20 years later as a grown man on a bicycle. The published account of his odyssey reveals the secrets of his family’s past, the heart of humanity and the deepest wounds of war. Catfish and Mandala By Andrew X. Pham Farrar, Straus and Giroux; $25, 336 pages… I find [the dead body of former North Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh] encased in a glass box like Sleeping Beauty… . I gawk at him with the rest of the tourists, half of them foreigners decked out in Spandex, cutoff jeans, sports bras, and Birkenstock sandals, the other half Vietnamese, sweaty and hot, quietly suffering in their best Sunday outfits. For Uncle Ho’s dignity, the… 612. Westchester County Weekly – February 3, 2000 Andrew Pham left Vietnam as a child in a leaking boat and returned 20 years later as a grown man on a bicycle. The published account of his odyssey reveals the secrets of his family’s past, the heart of humanity and the deepest wounds of war. Catfish and Mandala By Andrew X. Pham Farrar, Straus and Giroux; $25, 336 pages… I find [the dead body of former North Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh] encased in a glass box like Sleeping Beauty… . I gawk at him with the rest of the tourists, half of them foreigners decked out in Spandex, cutoff jeans, sports bras, and Birkenstock sandals, the other half Vietnamese, sweaty and hot, quietly suffering in their best Sunday outfits. For Uncle Ho’s dignity, the… 613. Los Angeles Times – August 21, 1994 Circle of Life Pointing at a peace sign in the middle of a brilliantly colored, circular sand-painted mosaic, 14-year-old Melva Carter said she learned Buddhist principles by working alongside Buddhist monks. “I learned compassion, kindness, respect and love, ” she said. “By working with the monks, they show you how to share. They work with you with patience. “During a free four-week program at the Watts Towers Arts Center, the secrets of the Buddhist… 614. – October 13, 2002 HER PRESCRIPTION FOR ILL CHILDREN IS ART, HINGHAM WOMAN HELPS YOUNGSTERS FIND SOME RELIEF Through the bustling halls of Massachusetts General Hospital for Children in Boston, Joan Drescher pushes her “Imagination Kart, ” a dolly decorated with streamers and filled with art supplies. Her first stop today is a pediatric oncology wing where she helps 9-year-old Joe Parsons paint a mandala, a brightly colored design, on a large round coffee filter. Joe, who lives in the North End and is being treated for lymphoma, wears a T-shirt that reads… 615. – August 8, 1998 FINE LINES IN THE SAND PART OF A HEALING WAY WASHINGTON (AP) – Three maroon-robed Buddhist monks spent hours this week carefully arranging colorful sand around a picture of Buddha. This is no ordinary sand sculpture – it’s part of a 1, 000-year-old system of healing. Though the monks will dump their creation, called a mandala, into water when they finish on Sunday, their purpose is to spread the work’s healing qualities into the Potomac, out into the Atlantic Ocean and over the world. The demonstration is… 616. – May 23, 1995 DRAWING UPON HEALING POWER OF THE MANDALA Like rainbows or sunbursts, miracles sometimes take us by surprise, changing fate and illuminating the darkness of our lives. A chosen few have experienced such a miracle. Yet hardly anyone knows the secret of actually creating one. Practitioners of the ancient art of painting mandalas, however, say they have discovered one way of bringing miracles down to earth, using an ancient sacred geometry to help ease depression and heal disease. While perhaps new to the healing arts, … 7. – June 4, 2003 PRAYERS FOR A PURLOINED PANCHEN LAMA, TIBETAN MONKS WANT RELIGIOUS LEADER BACK They are patient by nature, Tibetan monks, but a two-hour delay had them jumping off a loading dock, and dashing through PPG Place with metal carts loaded with sand, bells and other tools of transcendence. Seated on floor mats, the seven chanted a prayer to the Buddha of Long Life, inviting him to occupy the small white circle of sand it had taken Kachen Lobsang Tuskhar 15 minutes to lay on a giant, green board. They rang bells, they made the eightfold offering of water for drinking, water… 618. – May 15, 2003 Tibetan monks produce art with grit and determination From left, Buddhist monks Kunga, Thenly Choeden and Dawa Sonam work on a mandala sand painting Wednesday at the Unity Center in Tulsa. Work on the mandala will continue through Saturday, and the public is invited to observe. DAVID CRENSHAW / In the end the sand from the painting will be swept up. An ancient ritual, for 20 centuries seen only by a few monks in temples deep in the Himalayan Mountains, is on public display in Tulsa this week… . 619. – March 5, 2002 Life Transformed Life transformed through a mandala kaleidoscope Katherine Jones Staff I met Hillside art teacher Grace Herron three or four months ago when I covered an Idaho art teachers convention. While we talked about many things, she mentioned that she taught her students to make kaleidoscopes. “I wish I knew how to make a kaleidoscope, ” I said out loud — and she invited me to attend her class. So I came. Partly as a volunteer, partly as a student, partly as a… 620. – August 10, 1995 ROXBURY WOMAN’S GONE BACK TO DRAWING BOARD DECADES LATER, SHE’S PURSUING A DEGREE IN ART When Rose Mandala graduated from Brooklyn’s Bushwick High School in 1956, her teachers suggested she pursue a college scholarship in art. But she tabled the idea, opting instead for secretarial school. Several decades – and four grown children later – Mandala, now a Succasunna resident, is well on her way to a college degree in painting. And she has captured several awards for her art work, a collection…