| Title: | Psychic Phenomena |
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The TIBETAN SHARTSE MONKS will perform "Healing Rituals and Sacred Sounds"
SUNDAY, January 21, 8:00 PM
New England Life Hall
225 Clarendon Street, Boston
Tickets: $10.00 (See below***)
Eight monks from Gaden Shartse, one of Tibet's oldest monastic
universities, will conduct a service of healing rituals. Mystical
chant, gestures, music, dance and elaborate costume will be used to
demonstrate traditional techniques for using the power of imagination
to heal and transform pain and suffering. The Tibetan Shartse monks,
in the lineage of the Dalai Lama, are on their first world tour and
will perform rituals that are 1600 years old. Many of these rituals will
be performed for the first time outside of Tibet, Nepal and India.
The proceeds from this sacred healing ritual will help support the
influx of refugee students who have recently fled Tibet.
Other Events:
White Tara Long Life Empowerment Ceremony
TUESDAY, January 16, 7:30PM
Wisdom Publications
316 Newbury Street, 4th Floor, Boston
Tickets: $15.00, Space limited, book early
Call 617-536-3358
This empowerment is ideal for removing obstacles in life and in
health to help in learning about fulfillment of spiritual as well
as material aspirations.
Creation of SAND MANDALA and THREAD-CROSS CASTLE
WEDNESDAY, January 17 through SUNDAY, January 21, 10-5
Rotunda
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Sand Mandala is an intricate, rarely seen geometric "painting"
which, when consecrated, becomes a divine realm of the Medicine
Buddha. The Thread-Cross Castle, used in cases of severe illness,
bcomes the imaginary abode of the Goddess Dolma Yuldched.
Individual Sessions
With the Venerable Lobsang Topyl, Abbot of a Tibetan nunnery, who
is widely respected and renowned as a pure practitioner and healer.
For information call 617-232-4638.
Group Healing and Empowerment for Healers
To be scheduled. For information call 617-232-4638.
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Tickets for the Sunday night program ($10.00) are available at Wisdom
Publications, 361 Newbury Street, 4th Floor, Boston. Phone order
VISA, Mastercard (617)536-3358; Seven Star Books, 58 John F. Kennedy
Street, Cambridge (617)547-1317; Unicorn Bookstore, 1210 Mass Ave,
Arlington (617)646-3680; Trident Booksellers, 338 Newbury Street,
Boston (617)267-8688; and the box office on Sunday evening.
In addition, the following categories of TAX DEDUCTIBLE CONTRIBUTIONS
are available:
o Benefactor- $250 or more: A special reception with the Shartse
monks, a CD of Shartse monks' performance, admission tickets for
two for Tuesday and Sunday evening's perfromances, and preferred
seating.
o Patron- $100: CD of Shartse monks' performance, admission tickets
for two for Sunday evening's performance, and preferred seating.
o Friend- $50: Signed, high-quality poster to commemorate this
event and preferred seating.
o Contributor- $25: Preferred seating
FOR MORE INFORMATION, contact me at HYDRA::LOOMIS or phone DTN
226-6280 (mail preferred). I have flyers available if you want to post
or distribute them, and can try to answer (or get answers) to any
questions you might have; I will post the press release in the next
reply to this note. I am helping a close friend who is one of the
sponsors of this event (and actually, the monks are staying at her home!)
-- she saw them in California and was quite moved by their performance.
diane
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| 1193.1 | More Info on Shartse Monks | HYDRA::LOOMIS | Fri Dec 29 1989 17:04 | 72 | |
Background information on the Shartse Monks from the press release:
A group of Tibetan monks from the lineage of Nobel Peace Prize Winner,
the Dali Lama, will visit Boston during the week of January 15, 1990,
and will present several rituals for the public.
The Gaden Shartse monks, living in exile in southern India, will
perform sacred healing chants, rituals, and healing art forms at New
England Life Hall at 8:00 PM on Sunday, January 21. The healing
rituals have traditionally been performed to establish and maintain
health and tranquility in the individual and his or her environment.
The two hour program will demonstrate traditional techniques for using
the power of the imagination to heal and transform pain and suffering.
Many of the 1,600 year old rituals will be performed for the first time
outside of Tibet, Nepal and India.
Among the rituals to be presented will be the "Invocation of the
Medicine Buddha". According to the Tibetans, sickness is of two
kinds, sickness connected mainly with the body, and that connected
mainly with the mental state of the individual. The ultimate cause of
sickness as well as its cure lies deep within ourselves. This
empowerment ritual includes the rite of ablution which is essential in
preparing the patient mentally for an effective treatment. The monks
will also perform a rite of purification of the natural environment by
preserving the balance between the elements of nature and the "Dance of
the Dakinis", a powerful life-enhancing ritual dance normally performed
for eminent spiritual masters.
The monks will perform a White Tara Long-Life ceremony on Tuesday,
January 16, at 7:30PM at Wisdom Publications, 361 Newbury Street,
Boston (617-536-3358). Space is limited. Admission is $15. This
powerful ceremony has traditionally been performed to aid in physical
and spiritual health.
The monks will create a Sand Mandala and Thread-Cross Castle at the
Museum of Fine Arts from Wednesday, January 17 through Sunday, January
21, from 10 to 5 in the Rotunda.
During all of the rituals and healing art forms the monks act out the
archetypal dynamics of the psyche, depicting travels through the stages
of our own healing journey. The monks teach how to appreciate our
humanness, and through their art, they demonstrate the process of
serving others to contribute to a better, healthier world.
The Gaden Shartse Monastic University is one of the oldest and most
respected seats of higher learning in Tibetan Buddhism. When the
Chinese invaded Tibet in the 1950's, their monastery was destroyed and
like thousands of their fellow citizens, the students, scholars, and
meditators of Gaden Shartse fled their home and became refugees. Thes
center has been reestablished in Mundgod, India and now houses more
than 700 resident scholars, writeres, meditators and students. More
than 70 percent of its members are Tibetan youngsters between the ages
of 10 and 18. The college raises most of its income from the sale of
agricultural products, while providing Tibetan refugees-in-exile an
opportunity to receive a free education.
As refugees continue to flee the Chinese occupation of Tibet, the
Shartse monks are faced with supporting and education many newly
arrived young Tibetans wishing to become monks while struggling to
preserve their endangered spiritual tradition. Proceeds from their
world tour will go toward enlarging and supporting the monastery.
Tickets for the Sunday night program ($10.00) are available at Wisdom
Publications, 361 Newbury Street, 4th Floor, Boston. Phone order
VISA, Mastercard (617)536-3358; Seven Star Books, 58 John F. Kennedy
Street, Cambridge (617)547-1317; Unicorn Bookstore, 1210 Mass Ave,
Arlington (617)646-3680; Trident Booksellers, 338 Newbury Street,
Boston (617)267-8688; and the box office on Sunday evening.
Local sponsorship of the performances is by Wisdom Publications,
non-profit publisher and world's leading source of Buddhist books, and
the Museum of Fine Arts.
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| 1193.2 | Magical, Peaceful Tibetan Monks | XCUSME::RAMSAY | Tue Jul 17 1990 10:19 | 4 | |
Recently I videotaped a TV show of these Tibetan monks performing their
rituals in NYC. It is a magical experience. If ever they are in the
New England area again, I will definitely go see them.
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