Mandala Arts

Monks create sand mandala A pounding drumbeat and a loud blast from long trumpets punctuate the sound of trilling woodwinds and tinkling cymbals. Suddenly the instrumental din gives way to a droning chant. The sounds of that ancient ritual echoed through the Rutgers Campus Center in Camden this week as eight Tibetan Buddhist monks began constructing a mandala sand painting. Dressed in their deep red robes, orange shawls and yellow headdresses, the monks performed a ceremony thousands of years old. After the… 462. – November 21, 2008 MESSAGE IN THE SAND Buddhist monks are creating a Sand Mandala at Pasco-Hernando Community College as part of the college’s Peace Week activities. Sand Mandalas are associated with a Budhist ceremony considered the most profound and elaborate in Tibet. This mandala represents a mansion or palace of the deity Chenrezig. The construction is a long and disciplined effort. It has taken roughly 100 hours of work to get this far, with about 50 more remaining. Once completed, the Mandala is ritually… 463. – May 8, 2008 Pranadhanas to present ‘Mandala’ yoga dance event Journal Staff The Pranadhanas, a local performing arts group that melds yoga and dance, are set to unveil their latest creation, “Mandala, ” at 7:30 p. m. Friday at Cornell’s Barnes Hall. Inspired by women’s experiences of inner strength, vulnerability, and spirit, “Mandala” not only features dances by the Pranadhanas, but also live original music by multi-instrumentalist Joe Smellow, singer Sara High Speiser and… 464. – September 16, 2005 Sky Dancing, Page County’s Lotus Gardens Will Inaugurate Center With Dancing And Prayer Ceremonies A group of robed monks lean over a bright circle, rhythmically scraping small sticks along metal cones filled with sand. They carefully guide the colored granules that spill from the end of the funnels into intricate designs, each creating a part of a large stunning sand painting. The softly lit room is silent except for the trance-like scrapings of the sticks along the ridges on the cones. The mandala, which is the Sanskrit word for circle, will take days to create, but such devotion is part… 465. The Sacramento Bee – January 18, 2004 Circle of Life Tibetan monks turn grains of sand into a spiritual concept The upper room of Placerville’s Cozmic Cafe drew a stream of visitors last week. Some came for blessings and healings, others out of an appreciation for art, and some were simply curious about the robed Tibetan monks who spent hour after hour funneling grains of colored sand into the intricate design laid out on a table top. “It’s pretty neat stuff, ” 7-year-old Reagan Hester said Wednesday. She and several friends from… 466. Newcastle Herald (Australia) – June 25, 2003 Doubt on mental care unit staffing NEW doubts have been raised about the expansion of mental health services on the Central Coast. In an inquest yesterday, Gosford Mandala psychiatric unit acting head Andrew Campbell said a critical lack of psychiatric staff could affect plans to triple the number of mental health beds in the region. He was asked when a new 50-bed unit at Wyong would open to support the troubled 25-bed Mandala unit. “We’re going to have a hard job recruiting staff to man 50… 467. – June 1, 2000 Mandala, Salvatore MANDALA, SALVATORE, Mon. , May 29, fortified with the Sacraments of Holy Mother Church; beloved husband of Antonietta Mandala (nee Monteleone); dear father of John (Giovanna) Mandala and Agatha (Salvatore) Santangelo; dear grandfather of Daniela, Salvo, Michael, Jessica and Nicholas. Funeral from CALCATERRA Funeral Home, 5142 Daggett Ave. , Fri. , June 2, 9:30 a. m. , to St. Ambrose Church, 5130 Wilson Ave. , for 10 a. m. Mass. Entombment Resurrection Cemetery. VISITATION THURSDAY 3-8 P. M… . 68. – May 31, 2000 Mandala, Salvatore MANDALA, SALVATORE, Mon. , May 29, fortified with the Sacraments of Holy Mother Church; beloved husband of Antonietta Mandala (nee Monteleone); dear father of John (Giovanna) Mandala and Agatha (Salvatore) Santangelo; dear grandfather of Daniela, Salvo, Michael, Jessica and Nicholas. Funeral from CALCATERRA Funeral Home, 5142 Daggett Ave. , Fri. , June 2, 9:30 a. m. , to St. Ambrose Church, 5130 Wilson Ave. , for 10 a. m. Mass. Entombment Resurrection Cemetery. VISITATION THURSDAY 3-8 P. M… . 69. – November 20, 1999 Monks mold sand into spiritual object Garbed in bright maroon robes and sandals, 10 Tibetan Buddhist monks are patiently spending their days bent over plywood on the floor of a San Antonio temple to design a spiritual object of art. Their medium is colored sand that will be fashioned into a two-dimensional “mandala” to be a focus for chants and prayers by members of Chua Bao Quang, a Vietnamese Buddhist temple on the Northeast Side. Building the sand mandala is a meticulous process. It began with an… 470. – August 15, 1994 EAST MEETS L. A. FOR LESSON IN PEACE Hunched over a low-lying table, the Tibetan monks looked like they were laboring over the most fabulous wedding cake imaginable. Carefully balancing what looked like pastry tubes, the three men with shaved heads and flowing robes painstakingly surrounded an elaborately decorated circle with ribbons of blue, yellow and white. But the monks were no bakers, and their brightly colored garlands, ribbons and crests were not of sumptuous frosting but of sand.

281. Post-Standard, The (Syracuse, NY) – April 6, 2000 FLEETING BEAUTY In Tibetan culture, the sand mandala – an intricate “painting” made of different colors of sand – is used to signify impermanence. In Buddhism, seeing life as impermanent is also a way to understand how precious each moment is. Two monks from the Dalai Lama’s Namgyal Monastery in Ithaca recently created a sand mandala at Colgate University in Hamilton over the course of a week. The mandala honored the deity of compassion, and showed obstacles to human… 82. Los Angeles Times – April 1, 1994 ABC-TV President Mandala Announces Retirement Mark Mandala said he will retire as president of the ABC Television Network effective May 1. Mandala became president in January, 1986, as part of a restructuring by parent Capital Cities/ABC. In a statement, Mandala, 56, said, “The timing was right, financially and functionally, to leave Capital Cities/ABC after nearly 32 years. “In his job Mandala was in charge of such areas as affiliate relations, sales and network operations. He previously worked in such… 83. – August 6, 1993 YOU DON’T NEED TRUTH… IF THERE’S A GOOD STORY TO TELL Naga Mandala” casts such a spell, perhaps the Guthrie should think about ripping out those new-fangled seats, letting the audience bring sleeping bags and serving milk and cookies. This sublime play by Girish Karnad is a bedtime story for adults, albeit enlightened grown-ups willing to accept a moral tale from a woman’s point of view. In this play, a woman innocently commits a transgression that would earn her a scarlet letter or being stoned in the… 84. THE – December 15, 1990 Contraband on Life With and Without Father In “Mandala, ” playing at Theater Artaud through tomorrow, the three male performers of Contraband make a journey in search of the world of their fathers, a world they ultimately reject. Jess Curtis, Keith Hennessy and Jules Beckman have been presenting “Mandala” in various forms for several years. But now the journey is purportedly complete, although it ends with the same aching aura of loneliness that has been its traditional sign-off. Each… 85. Union-News (Springfield, MA) – November 16, 1990 Mandala Ensemble to perform at Elms’ Veritas Auditorium The Mandala Folk Dance Ensemble will perform tomorrow at 7:30 p. m. in Veritas Auditorium at Elms College. Proceeds of the concert will benefit the college’s financial endowment and in particular Chicopee scholarships. The Mandala Folk Dance Ensemble is a Boston-based company of 33 dancers, singers, and musicians who perform interational folk dance and music. Reflecting both the traditions of the old world and a common American heritage, their work takes audiences around the… 86. Antara (Indonesia) – October 13, 2008 Antara – The Indonesian National News Agency: MANDALA AIRLINES EXPECTS TO FLY NINE MILLION PASSENGERS IN 2009 from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Pontianak, W Kalimantan, Oct 13 (ANTARA) – Domestic airline company, Mandala Airlines, has set itself a target to fly eight to nine million passengers in 2009, or an increase of 80 percent if compared with its target in 2008, a Mandala Airlines executive said. “The increase in the target is in line with the company’s plan to increase the number of its airplanes, ” Mandala Airlines chief executive officer… 87. Asia Pulse – September 27, 2006 US INVESTMENT CO INDIGO EYES INDONESIA’S MANDALA AIRLINES U. S. investment company Indigo Partner is eyeing 49 per cent of the shares of Mandala Airlines now owned by the Cardig International Group. Chief spokesman of Mandala Alexius Wijoyo said Indigo has stated its interest to the management of Mandala but the Arizona-based company is not the only one indicating interest in Mandala Airlines, formerly owned by a foundation of the Army Strategic Command. Alex said Mandala is in a process of implementing… 88. – June 13, 2006 ‘PEACE COMING OVER THE ROOM’, TIBETAN MONKS PERFORM CONSECRATION CEREMONY AND MARK BEGINNING OF WEEKLONG STAY AT JEPSON Hundreds gathered Monday evening as Tibetan monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery sang, chanted and danced in the name of healing, compassion and universal peace. The event was the opening ceremony of the lamas’ weeklong stay at the Jepson Center for the Arts, where they will create a mandala, or sand painting, built grain by grain in the shape of complicated geometric designs and used to aid meditation. “The purpose is to share our unique culture that has… 89. Antara (Indonesia) – September 27, 2005 Antara – The Indonesian National News Agency: MANDALA TO REDUCE USING FUEL-C0NSUMING AIRCRAFT Jakara, Sept 27 (ANTARA) – A consultant of PT Mandala Airlines’ management SK Budihardjo said he will try to reduce the use of inefficient aircraft including Boeing 737-200s among other things that they are fuel-consuming. “Till the year 2006, we plan to buy five Boeing 737-300s, ” he said after a working meeting with ad hoc committee II of the Regional Representatives Council (DPD) here on Tuesday. According to him, in the mid 2006-2007 period, … 90. New York Times, The – March 3, 2002 IN BUSINESS Bakery Designed by Maya Lin To Be Built in Yonkers The Greyston Mandala will break ground tomorrow for its new bakery at 104 Ashburton Avenue in Yonkers, a 23, 000-square-foot building designed by Maya Lin. The building is expected to open in spring 2003. The current 7, 000-square-foot location, around the corner at 114 Woodworth Avenue, offers jobs, job training and social services to “people with difficult employment histories and a sense of disfranchisement, ” said Charles Lief, president of the Mandala, a…