Sentences with phrase «buddhist monks»

Design wise, the original depiction drew inspiration from the Catholic church, while modern versions pull from Buddhist monks.

Throughout history, Christian clergy, Rabbinical teachers, Muslim clerics, Buddhist monks, and Confucian philosophers have sought to teach the essence of mediation.

There, they will engage in structured conversations with village chiefs, Buddhist monks, Thai law professors, students, attorneys and representatives of non-governmental organizations.

The use of something so abundant, ever - changing and free — namely, soil — to create this object of luxury also seems to throw the idea of privately «owning» land into question, much like how Tibetan Buddhist monks are suggesting about the illusion of permanence when they create and then ceremonially destroy a mandala constructed of sand.

It never happened, so Buddhist monks from Thailand's Sisaket province took matters into their own hands and collected a million bottles to build the Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew temple.

... we take on the question of the compatibility of science and religion, with an excerpt from a Times Opinion piece written by Albert Einstein in 1930; a 2013 report on a conference between scientists and Buddhist monks hosted by the Dalai Lama; and a video in which the theoretical physicist Richard Feynman talks about trying to find answers to life's big questions while living with doubt.

It's home to Buddhist Monks who are keen to protect the forest, and it's governed by a progressive yet cash - strapped Forestry Ministry that's open to innovative solutions that can be scaled up if successful.

Buddhist monks patrol forests to ward off illegal logging and poaching, and African faith communities are teaching sustainable livelihoods and reforesting degraded lands.

Xaviera Simmons received her BFA from Bard College (2004) after spending two years on a walking pilgrimage retracing the Transatlantic slave trade with Buddhist monks.

This is a radical concept, but also an ancient one, calling to mind Buddhist monks who meticulously draw maps of the heavens in colored sand, only to blow away the finished drawing with quiet breaths.

Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will return to the Crow Collection of Asian Art for a week - long artist residency to construct a magnificent mandala sand painting during the Mystical Arts of Tibet August 19 — 26.

Objects featured in the exhibition include exquisite gold sculptures and paintings of the Buddha, beautiful Buddhist texts on palm leaf and paper, and a selection of images of Buddhist monks.

Walker explains, «When people interact with this series I hear a multiplicity of identifications, all representing different cultures and ages, from druids to Buddhist monks to burqas to crusaders to Mary to Star Wars.»

Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery at the Blanton Museum of Art (photo by Lindsay Hutchens)

Tibetan Buddhist Monks to Construct Large - Scale Symbolic Sand Painting at the Blanton Museum of Art — October 31, 2012

Millions of grains of colored, crushed marble will be laid into place in this ancient spiritual art form to generate energies for global healing; family activities planned throughout week Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will return to the Crow Collection of Asian Art for a week - long artist residency to construct a magnificent Tantric -LSB-...]

Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will return to the Crow Collection of Asian Art for a week - long artist residency to construct a magnificent Tantric Buddhist mandala sand painting.

Images of the train line are interspersed with footage of Tibetan Buddhist monks, filmed in the Samye Monastery, in Lhasa.

She received a BFA from Bard College (2004) after spending 2 years of walking pilgrimage retracing the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade with Buddhist Monks.

About the Artist Xaviera Simmons received her B.F.A. from Bard College in 2004, after spending two years on a walking pilgrimage retracing the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade with Buddhist monks.

Xaviera Simmons received her BFA from Bard College (2004) after spending two years on a walking pilgrimage retracing the transatlantic slave trade with Buddhist monks.

(The picture has regained currency with the recent occurrence of suicides by Buddhist monks protesting China's rule of Tibet.)

Simmons received her BFA from Bard College (2004) after spending two years on a walking pilgrimage retracing the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade with Buddhist monks.

Dallas Art News reporter Thao Votang reviews her visit to the Blanton Museum of Art to see the Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery.

Her work, which faces the open and airy courtyard of the Los Angeles museum, was presented in conjunction with the Mandala of Compassion for two weeks, a live exhibit in which Tibetan Buddhist monks constructed a sacred mandala using colored sands -LSB-.....]

Her work, which faces the open and airy courtyard of the Los Angeles museum, was presented in conjunction with the Mandala of Compassion for two weeks, a live exhibit in which Tibetan Buddhist monks constructed a sacred mandala using colored sands and methods passed down over two millennia.

The largest gallery will contain three imposingly scaled paintings measuring between eighteen and thirty - five feet in length, whose source imagery is drawn from an ancient tale of Buddhist monks confronting decay and death.

The Hammer Museum is pleased to welcome the return of four highly respected Tibetan Buddhist monks — Venerable Gelong Kalsang Rinpoche, Venerable Lama Nawang Thogmed, Lama Nawang Samten Lhundrup, and Lama Dorji Sherpa — to create an elaborate sand mandala in the Lobby Gallery.

Furthermore, when it comes to the mandala process, it is widely known that the Buddhist monks from Tibet spend weeks working on one, only to destroy it soon after it is done — because it's not about the end product, but the spirituality of its creation.

Tibetan Buddhist Monks at the Blanton Museum of Art (photo courtesy of the Drepung Loseling Monastery)

His subjects have included street eccentrics, homeless children, street performers, provincial drug traffickers, coal miners, Buddhist monks, prison inmates, Taoist priests, waxwork figures in historical museums, and the dead and dying.

Simmons received her BFA from Bard College (2004) after spending two years on a walking pilgrimage retracing the Transatlantic slave trade with Buddhist monks.

She received her BFA from Bard College after spending two years on a walking pilgrimage retracing the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade with Buddhist Monks.

Situated on either side of a floating wall, two large works embark from the same context of the «caloric paintings» but this time Joo surveys and conveys the meditation processes of Buddhist monks and those energy levels that transform and elevate both human body and soul.

The artist received her BFA from Bard College (2004) after spending two years on a walking pilgrimage retracing the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade with Buddhist Monks.

Simmons received her BFA from Bard College (2004) after spending two years on a walking pilgrimage retracing the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade with Buddhist Monks.

From July 18 — 22, Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will construct a temporary mandala sand painting on Level 3 of the Aspen Art Museum as part of their annual visit to Aspen.

We've written about our love of mandalas before — those intricate, swirling patterns made by Buddhist monks.

Buddhist monks live within the caves, worshipping in their labyrinth.

The capital, Vientiane, is a languid riverside city with great museums and cafes that can be explored on elephant - back, while the World Heritage listed former royal capital of Luang Prabang is a beautiful place of saffron - robed Buddhist monks, ancient monasteries and 32 temples.

Visit Songzanling Monastery, home to more than 600 Buddhist monks.

Expect to ride tuk - tuks, meet Buddhist monks, eat curry and maple pancakes (I enjoyed them a lot!).

Built around an ancient cave that once served Buddhist monks as a place of meditation and spiritual retreat, Kamalaya, offers a secluded sanctuary nestled on the tropical Thai island of Koh Samui.

Nestled in a valley that overlooks the coast of southern Koh Samui, Buddhist monks...

Located in a stunning valley overlooking tranquil waters and boasting the cave temple once used by Buddhist monks, Kamalaya has a particularly calming atmosphere.

Giving alms to the Buddhist monks is an ancient ritual many people in Luang Prabang still take part in today.

In modern times, living a settled life in a monastery setting has become the most common lifestyle for Buddhist monks and nuns across the globe.

They are perpetual nomads, without a permanent base to call home, but they «have climbed volcanoes, swum with sharks, gone caving deep into sacred Mayan caves, spent time with Buddhist monks, hiked in Patagonia and lived in some of the world's most exciting cities.»

In the Dambulla Cave Temple in Sri Lanka, Buddhist monks have meditated since the 1st century B.C. And who knows?Montreal's Underground City, a 4.5 - square - mile modern marvel with shops, apartments, and a chapel, may be rediscovered centuries from now, lending insight into Canadian culture, and man's ingenuity when it came to keeping warm during brutally cold winters.

Spiritually - inclined travellers can rub shoulders with Buddhist monks and Hindu ascetics in Nepal's medieval towns, each with their own temples, always busy with locals making their devotions.