Drepung Loseling Tibetan monks tour

Starting Date: 04-14-2003
Starting Time: 8:00pm
Ending Date: 04-18-2003

Address

Reed College
Portland, Oregon
United States
503 517 5389

http://administration.reed.edu/news/news.taf?ID=33287

Description

The Drepung Loseling Tibetan Monks Tour, "The Mystical Arts of Tibet," will bring a music and dance performance, a sand mandala painting event, and a lecture to Reed College from April 14 to 18 (see below for details and admission prices). The events, sponsored by the Reed student Amnesty International group, are open to the public. For more information visit http://web.reed.edu/publicevents or call 503/777-7755.

Sacred Music Sacred Dance Performance
Monday, April 14
8 p.m., Kaul Auditorium, $10 general admission
Ten pieces believed to generate energies conducive to world healing.

Sand mandala painting
Tuesday, April 15, to Friday, April 18
Gray lounge, free
Buddhist mandala sand painting is created grain by grain to generate energies for global healing. An opening ceremony on Tuesday morning will begin the mandala construction, and a closing ceremony will end it on Friday afternoon.

Lecture: "Tibet Today"
Thursday, April 17
7 p.m., Eliot Hall chapel, $5 general admission
A lecture focusing on the contemporary Tibet situation: the invasion by Communist China in the 1950s, the efforts of refugees in exile to preserve their civilization, the situation in occupied Tibet, and current human rights violations.

The Drepung Loseling Monastery was established near Lhasa in 1416. After the Chinese Communist invasion of Tibet in 1959 and the forced closure and destruction of its monasteries, monks from Loseling escaped and rebuilt their institution in Karnataka State, South India. Many more young spiritual aspirants have fled Chinese-occupied Tibet and come to the monastery to help preserve their traditional culture. The monastery established its American seat in 1989 as a result of its first world tour.

Geographical Scope:

Edits

Suggest a Change to this Entry

COMMENTS