Mandala Arts

71. Los Angeles Times – November 19, 2000 Rare Tibetan Buddhist Sculpture Consecrated as a Tool for Peace Religion: Believers say three-dimensional mandala can transform negative emotions into compassion. In a 1, 300-year-old ceremony of chants, incense and clanging cymbals, a rare and sacred Tibetan Buddhist sculpture was formally consecrated in Glendale on Saturday and offered as a blessing for universal peace. “With so much violence in the world, we cannot stay as silent spectators, ” said Lama Chodak Gyatso Nubpa, who sponsored the project with his Los Feliz Buddhist center. “Whatever benefit we can bring, we must do our part to bring. “… 72. – November 18, 2000 MANDALA CEREMONY SET TODAY AT FOREST LAWN GLENDALE – The first three-dimensional Buddhist mandala to ever be built in the United States will be consecrated today during a three-hour ceremony at Forest Lawn Museum. Standing 10 feet tall and 12 feet in diameter, the hand-carved, multilayered Shi-Tro Mandala will be consecrated by Lama Gyatso and Lama Gonjang Rinpoche at 9 a. m. , followed by an interfaith prayer blessing. Tibetan artist Pema Namdol Thaye and four artists worked 7, 000 hours to create the mandala, a Buddhist symbol… 73. – February 20, 1998 BAD PLAY IS NAVAJO-HUM ‘MANDALA’ FAILS AS SYMBOL-MINDED MELODRAMA THE MANDALA. By Waldemar Hansen. With Martha Thimmesch, John Griffith, Mimi Stuart, Chris Gunn and others. Sets by Justine Shih Pearson. Directed by Cyndy Marion. At Hudson Guild Theatre. WRITING A BAD PLAY IS EASY. But writing a ludicrous one takes hard work. Preposterous dramas usually result from a combination of high ambitions and low achievements. Waldemar Hansen’s new play “The Mandala” is a case in point. The ambition could hardly be greater… . 74. The Denver Post – September 9, 1996 Spiritual HEALING Monks coming to Denver to create sand mandala No doubt, someone will cringe if we sing “Hey, hey we’re the Monk-ees” to welcome Tibetan monks to the Denver Art Museum. A group of monks, from southern India’s Sera Je Monastery, will be there from tomorrow through September 22 to create a sand mandala – a Buddhist graphic symbol. For one thing, the song is already a Denver advertising cliche. The zoo is using the line – from the Monkees’ theme song – to promote its new… 88 75. Agence France-Presse – June 21, 2007 Indonesia’s Mandala Airlines orders 25 Airbus planes Indonesian group Mandala Airlines ordered 25 single-aisled Airbus A320s at the Paris Air Show on Thursday in a deal worth 1. 9 billion dollars (1. 4 billion euros) at catalogue prices, the companies announced. Airbus sales director John Leahy said that Mandala would be the first Indonesian customer for the A320, a small aircraft used on short-haul flights. The agreement with Mandala includes an option giving the airline the opportunity buy another five aircraft in the… . – June 6, 2001 Mandala to be dismantled Friday The Buddhist monks who created the sand mandala at the Ackland Art Museum earlier this year will dismantle it in a ceremony on Friday. Monks Tenzin Thutop and Tenzin Deshek from the Namgyal Monastery in Ithaca, N. Y. , constructed the Medicine Buddha mandala in the Ackland’s Yager Gallery over a three-week period in February and March. They will begin dismantling the mandala at 5:30 p. m. Friday. After the dismantling, they will lead a procession down Airport Road to Bolin… 77. Washington Post – February 26, 1988 WHOLENESS AND ‘BROKEN MANDALAS’ AT HENRI GALLERY, Jean Russo’s “Broken Mandalas” don’t lead the viewer on paths to higher consciousness, but they do encourage meditation. For her “paper paintings, ” Russo borrows the circular design from the Eastern religious symbol for the universe or wholeness. But she interprets it according to Jasper Johns. She has the same painterly effects — even his numbers creep in almost subconsciously — and the same… 81 78. – October 14, 2006 Tibetan Mandala: Healing sands The Tibetans have a way of showing just how transient life is. On Friday, a Healing Buddha Sand Mandala was being constructed by monks from Ganden Shartse Monastery, exiled in southern India from Tibet. The work continues today at Unity of Indianapolis, 907 N. Delaware St. Like an end to a life, the mandala will be dismantled in a ceremony at 5 p. m. today. _________________________________________ If you go What: Mandala construction by Tibetan monks. Where: Unity of… 79. – November 13, 1993 TIBETAN MONKS WILL BUILD MANDALA AT EXPLORATORIUM Four Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery in southern India will begin the building of a sacred sand mandala next week at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Their work will begin at 10 a. m. Wednesday with a special blessing ceremony and brief talk about the meaning of the mandala. The colorful and complex mandala is formed with grains of sand. The monks apply the hand-ground sand, made of semi-precious stones, by vibrating metallic cones to emit a fine line of… 80. – September 20, 2006 From mandala rituals to making flags Tibetan monks from India spent the better part of three days constructing a colorful mandala — a sand painting in which millions of grains of sand are painstakingly placed into complex geometric shapes and symbols. In a matter of minutes Tuesday morning, the circular mandala inside the University at Buffalo art gallery was gone. One of the monks swept the sand with a paintbrush into a single pile in the center. The monks then filled small plastic baggies with sand and handed them to…

161. – July 16, 2001 Mysticmandala, Tibetan monks perform age-old artistic ritual of beauty, compassion Today, an age-old ritual continues in a black-walled room at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, as Tibetan monks in saffron yellow and deep burgundy robes work, absorbed in the task of creating a sand mandala. The ritual began Sunday afternoon and will continue through Thursday until the monks complete the intricate, brilliantly colored symbolic design made from a million grains of sand. Then it’s destroyed and the monks distribute its remains. But before they drew the first… 62. – November 27, 1999 BUDDHIST NUNS CREATE SAND MANDALA Done right, the sand mandala will purify emotions and cultivate compassion. RALEIGH, N. C. – They sit cross-legged. They hunch over the table. And they toil in silence. This is no ordinary work. These 12 young women in burgundy robes are Tibetan Buddhist nuns, and the focus of their efforts is a sand mandala, a geometric diagram symbolizing the universe with a Buddha in the center. It will take 10 days to complete. The nuns work quickly, filling the diagram with colored sand, as… 63. – October 14, 2005 The art of healing Draped in maroon robes, four Tibetan Buddhist monks sat intently on floor pillows, their heads hovering closely over their partially completed sand mandala. A 5-by 5-foot cobalt blue board separated each monk to his own corner of the intricate design. More than 20 small containers were filled with colored sand, which is the traditional medium of choice. A 99-cent pack of “Grab and Go” peanuts leaned against a container of vivid yellow grains, the only apparent… 64. – March 17, 2009 Synesthesia Unveils �Virtual Brain� v1. 50 with New User Interface Designed for Multiple Pad Configuration Responding to a surge of multiple units being shipped out to players who are integrating them into their acoustic kits Synesthesia felt it was time to make things even easier and more compact for those using more than one pad. The new Virtual Brain v1. 50 was developed from requests made by Mandala players and has been tested extensively in multipad experiments with Danny Carey of the rock band TOOL. Mr. Carey is an endorsee of the Mandala and uses the same Mandala pads that are available to the… 65. Borneo Bulletin (Brunei Darussalam) – October 25, 2008 Borneo Bulletin: Promoting peace with Mandala Art The definition of art is widespread and is mostly regarded as a form of expression but Peace Mandalas differs in a way that it is purposefully created to promote peace. Artist Robyn Fields whose Peace Mandalas are currently exhibited at the Rainforest Gallery in Kiulap explained how inner peace is achieved through these Mandala pieces. “Peace Mandalas comes in the form of a circle with a centre and we write positive things around it, never negative things. Quantum Physics… 66. – September 4, 2005 BUSINESS CLEANS UP COMPETITION, DISTRIBUTOR IN AKRON EVOLVES INTO COMPANY MAKING OWN PRODUCTS Thirty-five years ago, a North Hill businessman saw a need for supplying carpet shampoo and toilet bowl cleaner to companies and institutions. Anthony Mandala sold a grocery and a hardware store and signed on as a distributor with a small Toledo company to sell Bullfrog supplies. He set up a one-man distributorship in the basement of the family home. What Mandala started in 1970 has mushroomed into a $7 million-a-year company that today supports 44 employees, including his five… 7. Syracuse Herald American – March 10, 1991 MONKS CREATE ANCIENT ART For the next two weeks, three Tibetan monks will spend several painstaking hours a day laying grains of colored sand on a platform. Line by meticulous line, the first floor of Cornell University’s Herbert F. Johnson Art Museum will slowly acquire one of Tibet’s oldest ritual art forms — a mandala, a circular design symbolizing the universe for Buddhists. Then, on March 30, the monks will ceremoniously destroy it. “It is to show what in Buddhism is called… 68. Syracuse Herald American – March 10, 1991 MONKS CREATE ANCIENT ART For the next two weeks, three Tibetan monks will spend several painstaking hours a day laying grains of colored sand on a platform. Line by meticulous line, the first floor of Cornell University’s Herbert F. Johnson Art Museum will slowly acquire one of Tibet’s oldest ritual art forms — a mandala, a circular design symbolizing the universe for Buddhists. Then, on March 30, the monks will ceremoniously destroy it. “It is to show what in Buddhism is called… 69. Antara (Indonesia) – February 20, 2009 Antara – The Indonesian National News Agency: MANDALA APPLIES “SINGLE FLEET POLICY” from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Singapore, Feb 20 (ANTARA) – PT Mandala Airlines has since early January this year begun applying a “single flight policy” by operating only one type of aircraft, Mandala Chief Executive Officer Warwick Brady said here on Friday. “We have started operating only one type of aircraft, namely Airbus, in an effort to make our operations cost efficient and to be able to offer competitive ticket… 70. Birmingham-Bloomfield Eagle – February 6, 2008 ‘Magic circle, ‘ experts inspire school district to plan ahead WEST BLOOMFIELD – Expert analysis, brainstorming sessions and a mystical drawing called a mandala helped unite school activists behind the creation of a strategic plan for Bloomfield Hills Schools. More than 100 people – including invited guests and volunteers – filled the cafeteria of West Hills Middle School during a “strategic champions” retreat Feb. 2. The meeting was part of BHS’ strategic planning process, which began late last year under… 83