Monks from the Gaden Shartse monastery in India started creating a sand mandala with accompanying rituals today at the Moody Center for the Arts. The mandala will be on view through Oct. 20, when a dissolution ritual will be performed.
In a series of events throughout the week, Tibetan monks will continue working on the mandala for public viewing and present a lecture on Buddhist concepts of life, death and rebirth. The lecture will be held 5-7 p.m. Oct. 17 at the Moody’s Lois Chiles Studio Theater with a focus on the topics of death, bardo and rebirth, explaining the stages and goals of life and death from the perspective of Tibetan Buddhism. The lecture and rituals will be led by Geshe Lharampa Jampa Chodak, ritual master.
Public viewings are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 9-11 a.m. Friday, and the dissolution ritual is 10:30-11:30 a.m. that day.
These events are made possible through support from the Chao Center for Asian Studies, the Humanities Research Center, the Department of Religion and the Moody Center for the Arts.
