Mandala Arts

… 851. – November 13, 2004 Tibetan Buddhist creation a path to peace Monks’ mandala more religious act than aesthetic feat The lobby of the Houston Museum of Natural Science could be a difficult place to find everlasting peace – or any peace at all. Tour groups crowd the corridor; a television touts the upcoming IMAX film Adrenaline Rush; McDonald’s perfumes the hall. But this past week, a group of seven Buddhist monks offered a glimpse of peace in the commotion. With noses nearly pressed to the surface of a blue table block, the monks set to the task of placing grains of sand to… 852. New York Times, The – January 29, 2004 A Morphing Map Gives Fire Chiefs the Big Picture “THIS is our replacement command board, ” Deputy Chief Vincent Mandala said, opening an 18-by-24-inch welded aluminum case standing on folding legs in the 11th Division station in downtown Brooklyn. “The old one was destroyed on 9/11. ” Each division of the New York City Fire Department owns such a board, which is used by the commander at the scene of a major fire to track units as they respond. And for all the technology devoted to public… 853. Birmingham Post, The (England) – June 4, 2002 The Birmingham Post: Golden Jubilee: Monks’ gift of peace and harmony The Prince of Wales yesterday received a symbolic Golden Jubilee gift from a group of Tibetan monks on behalf of the Queen. The sand Mandala, an intricate multi-coloured design representing health, long life, peace and harmony, was handed to Charles in the Orchard Room on his Gloucestershire estate, Highgrove. The group of monks, from the London-based Tibet Foundation, said the gift was given in gratitude for the kindness and hospitality of the British people and the Queen. Each member… 854. Guardian, The (London, England) – November 29, 2001 The Guardian: Suharto’s fugitive son arrested Indonesian detectives arrested the fugitive playboy son of the former dictator Suharto on suspicion of murder and other crimes yesterday, more than a year after he went into hiding after being found guilty of corruption in a land swap deal. The Jakarta police chief, Inspector General Sofjan Jacoeb, said a team of 15 officers caught Hutomo “Tommy” Mandala Putra, 39, at a house in Bintaro, south-west of . “Tommy was asleep when the detectives… 855. – September 9, 1999 c A group of Tibetan Buddhist lamas from the Drepung Loseling Monastery will be in- residence at Lakeland College for four days in September as part of their world tour. The monks will create a Mandala sand painting while at Lakeland and offer three public presentations during the four- day stay. The first lecture will take place on Friday at 11 a. m. in Lakeland’s Bradley Fine Arts Building. This lecture will deal with the building of the Mandala. Millions of grains of colored sand… 856. Chicago Tribune – June 28, 1998 SUHARTO’S SON WON’T QUIT CONSTITUTIONAL POST DESPITE CRITICS Former President Suharto’s youngest son, Hutomo “Tommy” Mandala Putra, has rejected calls for him to quit Indonesia’s highest constitutional body, the People’s Consultative Assembly, a newspaper said on Saturday. “Why should I resign? What’s the reason?” the Jakarta Post quoted Mandala Putra. Suharto resigned on May 21 amid the country’s worst economic and political crisis in… 857. (Lancaster, PA) – November 15, 1997 ANCIENT BUDDHIST HEALING CLOTH ON EXHIBIT HERE An ancient Buddhist healing cloth known as “The Mandala of the Soul of the Universe” will be on exhibit at Unity Church of York, 3295 Old Dutch Lane, on Sunday at 1:30 p. m. The Mandala, a rice-stained silk cloth thought to be 1, 500 years old, was smuggled out of Tibet in advance of the Chinese invasion in 1959. It was given as a gift to Buddhist monk Tien Tzu by Trijang Rinpoche, the revered teacher to the Dalai Lama, after the Dalai first visited the United… 858. – March 8, 1994 MONKS CARRY OUT BUDDHIST RITUAL, CREATE DESIGN TO PROMOTE PEACE Thousands of miles, a culture and a language usually stand between Lexington and the Drepung Loseling Monastery of Tibet. A bridge of communication and understanding was built yesterday, however, as 10 monks from the monastery applied the final grains of sands to a mandala, or sacred sand painting, at the Headley Whitney Museum. The Lexington stop is part of a 60-city tour during which the monks use music, dance and the creation of mandalas to promote world peace and understanding of their… 859. The Denver Post – February 5, 1994 Making peace the ancient way: one grain of sand at a time Few sounds invaded the softly lit room on the fifth floor of the Denver Art Museum, where unusually large midweek crowds gathered around a handful of Tibetan monks at work constructing an intricate peace mandala. The only people willing to break the sense of hushed awe were the Buddhist priests themselves who spoke to each other in Tibetan, laughed gently at each other’s jokes, and occasionally discussed the right way to proceed with their art work: a sand painting painstakingly… 860. Rocky Mountain News – February 4, 1994 A MISSION OF MERCY TIBETAN MONKS’ SAND MANDALA AIMS TO PROMOTE PEACE IN DENVER Ten Tibetan monks are in Denver this weekend, here to bring peace and healing to a place they heard was torn by violence. “I hear that in your city young boys are carrying guns, ” says Tenzin Dakpa, a 24-year-old Buddhist monk from the Ganden Jangtse monastary. “What we do can bless this place, bring peace and nonviolence, good karma to the people of Denver. “Dakpa knows about violence. The original Ganden monastery near Lhasa, Tibet, …

841. – September 13, 1997 RELIGION NEWS AND NOTES Tibetan monks to begin creating mandala Tibetan Buddhist lamas on Sunday will begin creating a mandala, an intricate colored sand painting, at the main gallery of the Arts Center in Portsmouth. All week the monks will continue the painstaking process of creating the sand painting, concluding Sept. 20. During the closing ceremony, the mandala will be destroyed, representing the impermanence of life, and the sands will be distributed to the audience or thrown into the Elizabeth… 842. – April 1994 Travel Tales From Hell, Bankrupt tour operators, stranded students, phony telemarketing schemes – the list goes on and on. Here’s how to stay off it. It was to have been her dream trip. But ten days before her deluxe, 24-day tour of Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia last fall, Herta Fleher got a notice from Mandala Tours claiming it had never received her $5, 900 check. Fleher, a retiree in New York City, immediately called her travel agent. Hadn’t her certified check been sent to Mandala months before? It had. A call to Thai Airways, which was supposed to fly the tour from the West Coast to Bangkok, confirmed her growing fear:… 7 843. – May 12, 1991 UNRUFFLED MONKS TO REDO SAND ART AFTER VANDALISM Inspired by Buddhist teachings of impermanence and compassion, a group of Tibetan monks will scatter the remains of a sacred sand painting below the Golden Gate Bridge, and start rebuilding their intricate mandala next week. ”We want to create another wonderful mandala, ” said Lobsang Samten, leader of a delegation that arrived here last month with the Dalai Lama. Samten’s decision to extend their stay in San Francisco and rebuild the… 844. – January 23, 1983 The Threatened Treasures Of Nepal AFTER READING Mary Shepherd Slusser’s Nepal Mandala: A Cultural Study of the Kathmandu Valley, it is almost impossible to believe that a work of comparable accomplishment could ever again emerge about this diminutive oval of Asian land nestling in the remote grandeur of the Himalayas. This masterful book is published in two volumes. The first volume consists of over 400 pages, each page with two columns of closely printed text. The second volume contains photographic plates, figures… 5 845. Straits Times, The (Singapore) – April 23, 2009 When Ming Yi met Raymond Yeung WHEN Ernst and Young auditors moved in to check Ren Ci Hospital’s finances in late 2006, they could not reconcile two loans made to Mandala Buddhist Cultural Centre. Both sums – for $300, 000 and $50, 000 – were on Ren Ci’s books, but not on Mandala’s. Yesterday, Buddhist monk Ming Yi, former chief executive of the charitable hospital, said: ‘I was very worried because I did not know what had happened. ‘ He said he had told… 846. Alliston Herald, The (Ontario, Canada) – April 8, 2009 Everett musician releasing CD April 11 Dulcimerhead, featuring David Rankine on mountain dulcimer and Fernando Villalobos on percussion, releases its newest CD, Dark Mandala at 7:30 p. m. Sat. , April 11 at The Old Town Hall, Newmarket. Earlier that day, Dulcimerhead is hosting a free event at the same location (11 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. ) called Spirit Fest: A Celebration of Creativity. It features interactive creative opportunities for the whole family with guest artists, musicians, healers, and a storyteller. Proceeds from a… 847. Alliston Herald, The (Ontario, Canada) – April 2, 2009 Everett musician releasing CD April 11 Dulcimerhead, featuring David Rankine on mountain dulcimer and Fernando Villalobos on percussion, releases its newest CD, Dark Mandala at 7:30 p. m. Sat. , April 11 at The Old Town Hall, Newmarket. Earlier that day, Dulcimerhead is hosting a free event at the same location (11 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. ) called Spirit Fest: A Celebration of Creativity. It features interactive creative opportunities for the whole family with guest artists, musicians, healers, and a storyteller. Proceeds from a… 848. Santa Cruz Sentinel – September 2, 2006 Divine Magic of Brazil established in Santa Cruz Rozi Frye carefully places different colored candles in the mandala, a chalk sketch of what looks like a kite, drawn in preparation for a Divine Magic healing ceremony, also called a “curativa. ” In the small rectangular room above an art gallery, the white walls are decorated by 10 of Frye’s original paintings of orixas, deities worshipped in the Afro-Brazilian religion Umbanda. “Divine Magic works with the Thrones of God, which are the… 849. Hindu, The (Madras, India) – February 11, 2006 The Hindu: Vasthu Purusha and energy fields One of the basic concepts of Vasthuvidya has to do with the “Vasthu Purusha” and “Vasthu Mandala. ” Many interpret these concepts in different ways. Critics consider these concepts to be illogical. But, there is a substantial theory behind these concepts. The concept of Vasthu Purusha and Vasthu Mandala can be explained through a simple story. Vasthu Purusha was a demon fighting against the Devas. The demon was so powerful that no one was… 850. – October 20, 2005 FUNNEL VISION It looks like meticulously woven tapestry in a splendid array of orange, yellow, pink, purple, and blue, but it’s millions of grains of dyed sand. Eight Tibetan monks from southern India spent four days last week at Rivier College in Nashua carefully pouring sand through metal funnels to create a mandala 5 feet in diameter. The design of this “Mandala of the Medicine Buddha” was meant to invoke a timeless ideal of all-encompassing compassion. It was hard…