Tibetan Monks Create Sand Mandala & Perform Their Sacred Music & Dance @ CWRU

Thu 11/21 @ 7:30PM

On Mon 11/18, Tibetan Buddhist monks from Tibet’s Drepung Loseling Monastery started work on a mandala colored sand painting at Case Western Reserve University’s Tinkham Veale Center with an opening ceremony featuring chanting, music and mantra recitation. Their work continues at 10am-2pm daily, through Fri 11/22 when the traditional closing ceremony is held @ 1pm where the work is destroyed, and the sand placed in an urn, with half passed out to the onlookers and the other half poured into a local body of water.

On Thu 11/12 at the Maltz Performing Arts Center on the CWRU campus, the monks of the Drepung Loesline Monastery will perform a concert called “The Mystical Arts of Tibet,” featuring their ritual sacred music and dance. It’s an abbreviated version of the centuries-old music and dance traditionally performed at spiritual festivals in Tibet typically lasting several days.

The concert is free; reserve tickets here. It will also be livestreamed at www.case.edu/maltzcenter.

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