The Sand Mandala Experience 2011 event is being presented by Palyul Changchub Dhargyayling Dallas as part of our ongoing service to the DFW community.
? Traditional Tibetan Sand Mandala Creation
? Prayers for World Peace and Healing
? Lama Dance with Full Instrumentation and Costumes (Lamas from Palyul Namdroling Monastery, India)
? Meditation and Inner Peace Teachings and Lectures
? Vajrasattva Mandala: Purification, Healing, Compassion and Enlightenment
The Sand Mandala is part of the artistic traditions of Tibetan Buddhism and ranks as one of their most unique and exquisite cultural art forms. Over several days the monks painstakingly place millions of grains of sand ? grain by grain ? into a sacred symbolic form until the sand mandala is finished. Then in a ceremony of dedication and blessings to all beings, the mandala is destroyed. The sand is swept into an urn and taken ceremoniously to a river or stream where the sand is then dispersed, its blessings to be carried all over the world.
In Tibet, this art is known as sand mandala painting. Working on a square platform, Tibetan monks create an intricate geometric design with brightly colored sand as part of a spiritual practice designed to re-consecrate the earth.
The Lama Dance is an ancient sacred dance ritual performed to ceremonial music by lamas wearing rich, colorful costumes and ornate masks. This auspicious ceremony is carefully orchestrated in great detail, with every bodily movement conveying a precise symbolic meaning. Done with great spiritual devotion and the aspiration to benefit all living beings, immeasurable blessings of loving-kindness, compassion and peace are generated and dispersed through this healing art of dance and music.
As Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso Rinpoche (Spiritual Director of PCD Dallas) has remarked, ?Right now you have a full opportunity: you can really apply yourself into some [meditation and spiritual] practice?This is a great opportunity?this is something very great and wonderful and amazing that could heal yourself and benefit your family and relatives and all sentient beings.?
The Sand Mandala Experience 2011 event is also a fund-raising effort for the PCD Dallas Temple Building Project. PCD Dallas has acquired land and is building the first authentic Tibetan Buddhist temple in the region.
The temple will be a focus for the Preservation of the Arts and Culture of Tibet and Nepal, with interior artwork and traditional decor created by Tibetan and Nepalese craftspeople trained in traditional methods of arts and construction. The completed PCD Dallas temple will be a shining beacon of Arts and Cultural Preservation.
Your help in funding the PCD Dallas temple building project will ensure the preservation of Arts and Culture of Tibet and Nepal in the North Texas region into the next millennium. And will benefit sentient beings in uncountable positive ways.
More about the PCD Dallas Temple Building Project: http://www.pcddallas.org/donations/pcd-dallas-temple-building-project/
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