The Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena (Los Angeles Area) is hosting a disgusting mania for the 9/11/11 tenth celebration tribute weekend:
Seaside Mandala by the Gaden Jangtse Monks
The Gaden Jangtse Buddhist monks wish use up five days at Pacific Asia Museum creating a sand mandala in the museum's Median Veranda and a open out head (floral form) in the go out with garden.
The sand mandala is an ancient art form that is unusual to Tibetan Buddhism. The artwork is ready by placing fine sand, grain by grain, dressed in an comprehensive design of the world in its divine form. Upon attainment, the mandala is blessed a irreversible time, and the sand is swept dressed in a load -- erasing the nimble work of art.
Specific of the sand is susceptible to fill ceremony as a small blessing for their home, and the carcass is poured dressed in the moving water of the deep-sea everyplace it can tolerate prayers and blessings in the course of the world. Go to regularly available and available from beginning to end the course of the five days to see the spread of the artwork and learn excellent about this ancient art form.
