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Visions of Enlightenment:
The Monks of Drepung Gomang Monastery, India
April 10–13, 2012Tuesday, April 10–Thursday, April 12, 2012:
Sand Mandala Construction in the La Salle Art Museum 9 a.m.–4 p.m., open attendance
Tuesday, April 10, 2012 Traditions and Treasures of Tibet: Cultural Pageant
La Salle Quad, 12:30–2 p.m.
Wednesday April 11, Ritual Prayer (Puja) Connelly Library, 1 p.m.
Thursday, April 12, 2012 Tibetan Buddhism: Basic Precepts and Practice
Dunleavy Room, 12:30–2 p.m.
Friday, April 13, 2012 Mandala Dismantling Ceremony
La Salle Art Museum, Noon–1 p.m.
Made Possible through the Generosity of the Theodore Morrow Memorial Fund
Co-sponsored with the La Salle University Art Museum, the Multicultural and International Center, the South Asian Student Alliance, Connelly Library,
and the Cross Cultural Association.
Drepung Monastery was founded in 1416 near Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. An important learning center for Tibetan Buddhism, it comprised many colleges, of which Gomang Dratsang specialized
in philosophy: logic and debate. In 1959, 10 years after the 1949 Communist Chinese invasion and occupation of Tibet, 100 monks followed His Holiness the Dalai Lama into exile in India. In 1969, survivors of that journey rebuilt the Drepung Gomang monastery in Mundgod, south India. Today
it is the home of approximately 2,000 monks. Source: www.gomang.org/history.html
Event is free and open to the public. For details, please contact Cornelia Tsakiridou at 215.951.1558, 215.951.1015, or [email protected].
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