Very excited to be speaking this Sunday at the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena. It’s a gorgeous place, if you haven’t been, a gem of a museum.
When, where: 2 p.m. April 29. 46 N. Los Robles Ave., Pasadena.
Admission, info: Free with museum admission. RSVP to (626) 449-2742, Ext. 20.
Today monks from India and Bhutan affiliated with the Chokhor Gepel Ling Tibetan Buddhist Center swept away a magnificent mandala sand painting they’d been working on since Wednesday at the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena. The idea of a sand mandala is to illustrate the concept of impermanence. The room was packed and kids in particular stared in awe at the ceremony.
No better way to mark the interconnectedness of the universe than this.
The monks are coming to Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena to create a sand mandala this week, which, as is typical, they will then destroy:
But after watching the art crew on the latest Batman movie build out an elaborate crash scene over the last two days, and then have it be done with one explosion in about three minutes this morning ….I feel like I’ve just witnessed some sort of Hollywood version of this Buddhist ritual.
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