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Tibetan monks’ sacred arts tour comes to Tallahassee
From staff reports
A group of Buddhist monks from the Drepung Gomang monastery in India will visit Tallahassee this month. The monastery was originally founded in 1416 near Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, and was moved to India after China’s invasion of Tibet at the end of World War II.
Before the Chinese invasion, the original monastery had more than 10,000 monks. The Chinese destroyed that monastery along with about 6,000 other ones. India’s gift of 42 acres of land in 1969 allowed the monastery to relocate to India. Fifteen hundred monks now live there. Small groups of monks travel internationally to raise money for the monastery.
Schedule
Jan. 15, 11 a.m. – Opening ceremony at the Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science, Kleman Plaza.
Jan. 17, 7:30-8:45 p.m. – The monks will do a free demonstration of butter sculpting, a 400-year-old Tibetan tradition that specializes in creating flowers, people and animals. It will be at New Leaf Market, 1235 Apalachee Parkway.
Jan. 18, 6-8 p.m. – The monks will demonstrate Tibetan Sand Painting at Mary Brogan Museum. $10.
Jan. 19, 5:30-7:30 p.m. – A reception will be held for the monks at the Mary Brogan Museum of Art. $15 for museum members, $22 for nonmembers.
Jan. 26, 7 p.m. - Cultural Pageant, sacred dances of Tibet in colorful ceremonial dress. Tallahassee Progressive Center, $15.
Jan. 27 – beginning at 2:30 p.m. at the Mary Brogan Museum, the monks will do a ceremony dismantling the peace mandala that they will have created out of sand. The ceremony will end at Lake Ella.
For more information, contact Kaity Power at 3kprpt@nettally.com.
For more information on the monastery: http://www.gomang.org/
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