Alumni Bulletin - Winter 2008 - (Page 28) A Blessing to the Community Over the course of five days in October, a steady stream of students, staff, faculty, and visitors watched as four monks of the Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist Studies in upstate New York created a beautiful and intricate sand mandala in the Linderman Library rotunda. And then, in a dissolution ceremony illustrating the impermanence of life, they dismantled the Chenrezig mandala, brushing the millions of grains of brilliantly colored sand into a pile, scooping them up by hand, and pouring them into a glass urn. The urn was then transported to Sand Island on Bethlehem’s North Side, where the monks released the sand into the flowing Lehigh River to symbolize the kindness and compassion of the deity being released into the world for the benefit of all. The creation of the sand mandala by the monks—who have created similiar exhibitions for museums and galleries throughout the world—was part of the lead-up to the Dalai Lama’s historic visit to Lehigh in July. At that time, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet will present a series of teachings sponsored by the Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center in Washington, N.J., in collaboration with the university. For the latest information about the Dalai Lama’s visit, and to watch a slideshow of the sand mandala exhibit, visit www.lehigh.edu/dalailama. Photography by Douglas Benedict 28 lehigh alumni bulletin http://www.lehigh.edu/dalailama
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