Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
Sand Mandala by the Gaden Jangtse Monks
The Pacific Asia Museum presents Sand Mandala.
When:
September 7, 2011 10:00am to September 11, 2011 5:00pm
Visiting from their home in Tibet, the Gaden Jangtse monks will spend five days at Pacific Asia Museum creating a sand mandala in the museum’s Focus Gallery and a butter sculpture (floral form) in the courtyard garden. The sand mandala is an ancient art form that is unique to Tibetan Buddhism. The artwork is made by placing fine sand, grain by grain, into an intricate design of the world in its divine form. Upon completion, the mandala is blessed a final time and the sand is swept into a pile - erasing the once beautiful work of art. Some of the sand is given to those who are present, as a small blessing for their home, and the remainder is poured into the moving water of the ocean where it can carry prayers and blessings throughout the world. Visit over and over during the course of the five days to see the progression of the art work and learn more about this ancient art form.
Schedule of Events:
Wednesday, September 7: Free Admission in Honor of the Monks
10:00 am - Opening blessing in the Focus Gallery
11:00 am - Mandala lecture by Geshe Tenzin Sherab
Friday, September 9
2:00 pm - Mandala lecture by Tenzin Thokme
Sunday, September 11
2:00 pm - Sweeping away ceremony at the mandala
4:00 pm - Ritual dance performance and traditional Tibetan chanting (Free admission)
Cost:
Adults $9, Seniors & Students $7; All events are free to members and included with museum admission unless otherwise indicated
Phone Number:
(626) 449-2742
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