Mandala Arts

Sacred art Lobsang, Lobsand Jampa and Jampa Lama, of the Tashi Lhunpp monks, spent much of their four-day visit to Maroondah last week creating a mandala – patterns from coloured sand. The mandala symbolises a perfect world where compassion is shown to one another, and is used by the monks as a visualisation tool during meditation. Once completed, the display is scattered as part of the Buddhist teachings of impermanence.

SPIRIT OF TIBET BUDDHIST MONKS SHARE ART, CULTURE DURING MODESTO JUNIOR COLLEGE EVENTS It is a Tibetan Buddhist monk’s prayer to be a vessel for harmony and peace. A group of monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery in India hopes to share that feeling during a four-day visit to Modesto later this month. The monks will spend several days creating a 4-foot-diameter mandala with colored sand, speak about the mandala’s meaning and perform sacred music and dances for the public. Events — part of Modesto Junior College’s… 9 1286. – December 23, 2003 LETTERS — More questions on monks’ visit I was so glad outsiders were allowed to visit Nashua High School’s recent weeklong series of events of the Tibetan monks – their sand mandala construction, prayer/chanting, lectures and slide show on the Buddhist religion – also the Laramie Project drama and the HIV/AIDS quilt. Janice Hutchinson’s recent letter (Nov. 28, “Time to open Nashua High to other religions”) suggested giving equal time and equal tolerance to other religions. Good… 87. Bristol Evening Post (England) – July 10, 2003 Bristol Evening Post: Artistic Tibetan monks go with the grain FOUR Tibetan monks are spending five days in Weston-super-Mare painstakingly producing an amazing work of art. They are making a sand mandala – the Buddhist depiction of a heavenly world – on a table top in Weston College’s Hans Price Gallery in Lower Church Road. Coloured sand is gently shaken on to the table to produce an intricate and vivid creation. The work is being carried out by monks Jamyang Ketup, Jamyang Yonten, Norbu Tsering and Nima Sherpa, who have left… 88. – May 17, 2003 Snapshots of a nation A new book will feature a week’s worth of America’s moments Puppy and child, frolicking. Tibetan monks creating a sand mandala. Riders working cattle. These are among scenes of life in New Mexico captured this week by dozens of professional and amateur photographers throughout the state. They are participating with thousands across the nation in the “America 24/7″ digital photography project. It’s been… 89. – August 4, 2002 Tibetan monks create a colorful symbol, Sand mandala reflects beliefs of Buddhism REDMOND — Lobsang Ngawang patiently tapped white pigment into the mosaic as if a crowd of people weren’t peering at him. He barely looked up. Neither did the three other monks who added magenta, lemon yellow and earthy green pigments into a circular motif with special meaning. They started in the late morning and continued through early evening yesterday, squatting at a Redmond bookstore to make sure each grain of color went into the right place. The… 90. Central Coast Express (Sydney, Australia) – June 6, 2001 FATAL FLAWS: Widow speaks out about unit problems Widow speaks out over Mandala problems Widow speaks out about unit problems FOR eight years until his death on May 23 Brian MacKellin, of Kincumber, saw Mandala psychiatric unit at Gosford as a safe haven when the symptoms of his mental illness overwhelmed him. “He felt the kids and I were suffering if he was here at home during the worst of it and he felt secure at Mandala, he felt very safe and very close to the staff