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UB proudly sponsors a year of events
The 14th Dalai Lama at the University at Buffalo
Promoting peace across borders through education
A Year of Events
September 19
Distinguished Speakers Series Lecture
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
His Holiness the Dalai Lama will deliver a major address on the theme of promoting peace across borders through education. | Details
September 19
Day of Learning
Sand mandala deconstruction ceremony
Demonstration emphasizes the impermanence of this life in Tibetan Buddhist tradition | Details
Exhibits
Friday, September 1 through Saturday, September 30
University Libraries' Exhibits in Honor of the Visit to UB of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
Explores the life and thought of the Dalai Lama, Tibetan history, religion, medicine, music, law, architecture, culture, and the development of Western geographic notions of Central Asia and Tibet across time. | Details
Saturday, September 16 through Tuesday, September 19
Mandala Sand Painting: A Sacred Art by the Tibetan Lamas of Drepung Loseling Monastery
Exhibit
UB Art Gallery, Center for the Arts
Special Gallery Hours:
9/16 11-5, monks in residence 11-5
9/17 10-6, monks in residence 10-noon
9/18 10-7, monks in residence 10-2:30
9/19 sand painting deconstructed at 11
From all the artistic traditions of Tantric Buddhism, that of painting with colored sand ranks as one of the most unique and exquisite. In Tibetan this art is called dul-tson-kyil-khor, which literally means "mandala of colored powders." Millions of grains of sand are painstakingly laid into place on a flat platform over a period of days or weeks. Formed of a traditional prescribed iconography that includes geometric shapes and a multitude of ancient spiritual symbols, the sand-painted mandala is used as a tool for re-consecrating the earth and its inhabitants.
Events:
Saturday, September 16, 10:00 a.m.
Consecration ceremony for the sand mandala painting (viewable via live feed in the Center for the Arts atrium) | Details.
Tuesday, September 19, 11:00 a.m.
Sand mandala deconstruction ceremony (viewable via live feed in the Center for the Arts atrium) | Details.
For more information visit:
UB Art Galleries online |Go.
Monks to construct sand painting: Mandala being created in CFA in conjunction with Dalai Lama's visit to UB |Go.