THE MYSTICAL ARTS OF TIBET:
SACRED MUSIC/SACRED DANCE FOR WORLD HEALING
Saturday, March 21, 7:30 p.m.
Dorothy Menker Theater
Tickets: $30 General Public/$25 Seniors, MVCC Staff
The Tibetan monks will create a sand mandala in the Moraine
Valley Library from March 18 to 21. Of all the artistic traditions
of Tantric Buddhism, that of painting with colored sand ranks
as one of the most unique and exquisite. Millions of grains
of sand are painstakingly laid into place on a flat platform
over a period of days or weeks to form the image of a
mandala. To date, the monks have created mandala sand
paintings in more than 100 museums, art centers, and
colleges and universities in the United States and Europe.
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OPENING CEREMONY
Wednesday, March 18, time TBD
MANDALA CREATION
March 18 to 21 during normal library
hours
CLOSING CEREMONY
Saturday, March 21, time TBD
FREE for Children and Students (with ID)
Ticket required to reserve seat
The famed multiphonic singers from Tibet’s Drepung Loseling Monastery will perform traditional
temple music and mystical masked dances. This extraordinary performance features elaborate
costumes, traditional instruments and unique multiphonic singing wherein the monks simultaneously
intone three notes of a chord. The Drepung Loseling monks are particularly renowned for this unique
singing. They also utilize traditional instruments such as 10-foot-long dung-chen horns, drums, bells,
cymbals and gyaling trumpets. Rich brocade costumes and masked dances, such as the Dance
of the Sacred Snow Lion, add to the exotic splendor.
“...remarkable...the music and the dance
invoke sacred ecstasy...”
– The New York Times