Post by subdjoe on Apr 9, 2011 2:16:25 GMT -5
Mystical arts sooth the soul at SSU
Friday, April 8th, 2011 | Posted by Joelle Burnette | no responses
This "Medicine Buddha" Mandala is created by carefully placing colored sands into a design sketched on a large platform (photo courtesy of Drepung Loseling Monastery)
“To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.”
-William Blake
By JOELLE BURNETTE
ROHNERT PARK CORRESPONDENT
Buddhist monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery will be constructing a Mandala, a sand painting, on campus at Sonoma State University several days next week. The public is invited to attend this and more related ceremonies in honor of Asian Heritage Month on campus.
Music and mantra recitation will start off the event during the opening ceremony as the monks consecrate the site they will be using for this traditional form of sand art. This is a free event on Monday at noon in the Schulz Library Art Gallery on the second floor at SSU.
Monks use metal funnels to pour out millions of grains of colored sand to create the Mandala (photo courtesy of Drepung Loseling Monastery)
The monks use traditional metal funnels called “chak-pur” to pour out millions of grains of colored sand that are laid into place on a flat platform on which a design has been sketched. In Tibetan this art is called, “dul-tson-kyil-khor,” which translates to, “mandala of colored powders.”
More than 100 museums, college campuses and more locations in the United States and in Europe have displayed the monks’ artwork, according to the SSU Associated Student Productions that is sponsoring the month’s events in cooperation with the school’s Multicultural Center and made possible with the support of the Instructionally Related Activities fund.
The public is invited to watch as the monks work on their sand painting between 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day until the closing ceremony on Thursday at noon when the painting will be destroyed as a metaphor to show the impermanence of life. The sands are swept up and placed in an urn from which half the sand is distributed to the audience and the other half is released into a body of water, all the while spreading the blessing of good health in the process.
Prior to the sand painting’s completion, the monks will present Sacred Music Sacred Dance for World Healing, filling the Green Music Center with multiphonic chanting, music and dance on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. There are limited free tickets available for Wednesday evening’s performance. Tickets are available at the SSU Student Union and www.brownpapertickets.com. For more information, or to order tickets by phone, call 664-2382.
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Friday, April 8th, 2011 | Posted by Joelle Burnette | no responses
This "Medicine Buddha" Mandala is created by carefully placing colored sands into a design sketched on a large platform (photo courtesy of Drepung Loseling Monastery)
“To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.”
-William Blake
By JOELLE BURNETTE
ROHNERT PARK CORRESPONDENT
Buddhist monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery will be constructing a Mandala, a sand painting, on campus at Sonoma State University several days next week. The public is invited to attend this and more related ceremonies in honor of Asian Heritage Month on campus.
Music and mantra recitation will start off the event during the opening ceremony as the monks consecrate the site they will be using for this traditional form of sand art. This is a free event on Monday at noon in the Schulz Library Art Gallery on the second floor at SSU.
Monks use metal funnels to pour out millions of grains of colored sand to create the Mandala (photo courtesy of Drepung Loseling Monastery)
The monks use traditional metal funnels called “chak-pur” to pour out millions of grains of colored sand that are laid into place on a flat platform on which a design has been sketched. In Tibetan this art is called, “dul-tson-kyil-khor,” which translates to, “mandala of colored powders.”
More than 100 museums, college campuses and more locations in the United States and in Europe have displayed the monks’ artwork, according to the SSU Associated Student Productions that is sponsoring the month’s events in cooperation with the school’s Multicultural Center and made possible with the support of the Instructionally Related Activities fund.
The public is invited to watch as the monks work on their sand painting between 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day until the closing ceremony on Thursday at noon when the painting will be destroyed as a metaphor to show the impermanence of life. The sands are swept up and placed in an urn from which half the sand is distributed to the audience and the other half is released into a body of water, all the while spreading the blessing of good health in the process.
Prior to the sand painting’s completion, the monks will present Sacred Music Sacred Dance for World Healing, filling the Green Music Center with multiphonic chanting, music and dance on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. There are limited free tickets available for Wednesday evening’s performance. Tickets are available at the SSU Student Union and www.brownpapertickets.com. For more information, or to order tickets by phone, call 664-2382.
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