MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY	SATURDAY	SUNDAY
		1 Compadres kick off 7 pm	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9 Norman Bristol-Colón Luncheon 12:30-1:30 University Club The State of Latinos in Pennsylvania: The Rising of Influence Socially and Politically 4-5:30 (SWC 111)	10	11	12
13	14 Carlos Mamani “America Indigena From the Andes to 'Indian Country' Then and Now: A Personal View." 4:30-6:30 pm Alumni House	15	16 Movie Night Bordertown 7 pm	17	18	19
20 Carlos Eire "Waiting for Snow in Havana....and Waiting... and Waiting..." 4-6pm Alumni House	21	22	23 Salsa and Merengue class at the Field House Gym Studio (6:30-7:30 pm)	24 Azúcar   TBA	25	26
27 Kent Stoner Mission: ‘Central America’ 4-6pm Alumni House	28	29	30	31

 

THE BUDDHIST MONKS OF GADEN SHARTSE MONASTERY

October 26-31

Sponsored by The International Arts and Cultures Series; The College of Humanities,

Fine and Performing Arts; The Asian Studies Foundation; The Office of  International

Services; and the Departments of Philosophy, Political Science, Professional Studies, and Art

 

The Gaden Shartse Monastery was originally founded in Tibet in the mid 1400s, as a learning center dedicated to developing practices to inner peace and compassion. This event features Monks of the Gelugpa order of Tibetan Buddhism of which the Dalai Lama is the head.

 

All Events are being held on the Slippery Rock University campus (Unless stated otherwise) and are free and open to the public

 

Construction of Sand Mandala  10:00am-5:00pm Monday Oct 27 – Thursday October 30 Carruth Rizza Hall Lobby   Ceremonial Dissolution of Sand Mandala 12:00-1:00 pm Friday October 31 Carruth Rizza Hall Lobby

 

Additional events:

 

Sunday, Oct. 26 Opening Reception and Film Screening:  Dalai Lama Renaissance  7:00-9:00 p.m.

SRU Advanced Technology and Science (ATS) Auditorium

 

Monday, Oct. 27  Workshop: Meditation on Dependent Arising 7:00- 8:30 p.m. Russell Wright Alumni House.

 

Tuesday, Oct. 28  Vajravidharan Healing Ritual 7:30-9:00 p.m. Ginger Hill Unitarian Universalist Church of Slippery Rock.

 

Thursday, Oct. 30 Public Lecture: World Peace and the Unity of All Religions. 7:00-9:00 p.m.  Spotts World Cultures Auditorium

 

Friday, Oct. 31 Film Screening Kundun  4:00-5:30 p.m. Advanced Technology and Science Auditorium.

Farewell Reception  5:30-6:00 p.m. Advanced Technology and Science Auditorium Lobby

 

Donations will be accepted on behalf of the Gaden Shartse Culture Foundation

 

For further information about this event call 724-738-4996 or email andrew.colvin@sru.edu

 

For further information about the monks of Gaden Shartse see http://www.gadenshartsetour.org/

For Your Information....

 

Dalai Lama Renaissance is an award winning 2008 documentary film produced and directed by Khashyar Darvich and narrated by Harrison Ford that tells the story of 40 Western thinkers who travel to the Himalayan Mountains in India to meet with the Dalai Lama to discuss world issues - and the results are both humorous and compelling. For more information on this film: http://www.dalailamafilm.com/index.html

 

The mandalas created on the monks' tour will be two dimensional sand mandalas. The construction of these images will require between 75 and 125 hours of painstaking effort, completed by several monks at a time. Upon completion of the mandala, the monks will purposely destroy the magnificent work of art. The Buddha's last words were "All things are impermanent, work out your salvation with diligence." In upholding the principle that life is transient, the monks will sweep up the mandala in a ritualistic ceremony.

 

The Tantric ritual of Vajravidharan is a ritual of purification and healing. In this ritual the vajra master will lead participants through visiualization and ritual to cleanse participants, remove negativities, and offer protection. While this ritual is open to the public all participants who are able will be asked to offer a small donation

 

Kundun, directed by Martin Scorsese, is based on the true story of the discovery and the transformation of the fourteenth Dalai Lama from a two-year-old boy to a the spiritual leader known as the Dalai Lama or 'Ocean of Wisdom.'  The film explores the basic tenets of Buddhism, traces the suffering of the Tibetan people and reveals the hard decisions that the Dalai Lama has to make to preserve Tibet's people and their culture