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Tibetan monks to visit Georgia Southern as stop on Mystical Arts of Tibet World Tour
October 27, 2017
Students, faculty and staff are invited to witness Tibetan monks construct a sand mandala in the Russell Union Commons from Monday, Oct. 30 to Friday, Nov. 3 as part of the Mystical Arts of Tibet World Tour.
The opening ceremony will begin at noon, Monday, Oct. 30, in the Russell Union Commons and will feature music, chanting and more. The monks will painstakingly lay millions of grains of sand, one grain at a time, onto a platform to create a beautiful work of art throughout the week. They will complete it Friday, Nov. 3 before the closing ceremony, which will take place at noon.
“The Multicultural Student Center is happy to host the Tibetan monks on campus as we strive to provide a wide array of cultural events as a means of exposing our community to different cultures,” said Takeshia Brown, director of the Multicultural Student Center. “Having the monks on campus will be an opportunity for students to become more curious about the world around them.”
The Mystical Arts of Tibet is a world tour endorsed by the Dalai Lama to promote world peace and healing by sharing Tibet’s rich and authentic sacred performing and visual arts with modern audiences. The tours offer a rare opportunity to witness one of the world’s most ancient sacred traditions presented by a group of monk artists for whom these traditions are a way of life.
The artists are monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery, and are not full-time professionals; rather they are genuine monks who are taking time off from their lifelong devotion to contemplation and study to participate in the tour.
These monk artists consider it an honor to be selected to represent their monastery and share their cultural traditions on the tour, hoping they will be able to make some small contribution toward world peace and toward greater awareness of the Tibetan situation. At the end of each tour the monks return to Drepung Loseling Monastery to continue their vocation.
The monks are hosted on campus by the Multicultural Student Center. For more information, email msc@georgiasouthern.edu or call 478-5409.
Georgia Southern University, a public Carnegie Doctoral/Research University founded in 1906, offers 118 degree programs serving 20,673 students. Through eight colleges, the University offers bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree programs built on more than a century of academic achievement. Georgia Southern is recognized for its student-centered and hands-on approach to education. Visit GeorgiaSouthern.edu.
