Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/06/16

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Subject: [Leica] mandala - birth / death
From: ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Mon Jun 16 16:27:08 2008
References: <82c9dd70806161553j7e537368tca8a58ebd9bc4e65@mail.gmail.com>
 
One of my favorite stories is of a group of monks creating a sand  
mandala in a California museum. They were nearing completion after  
several days when a madman, religious fanatic attacked and destroyed  
the mandala.

The monks laughed and cheered his tantrum;^)

Ric Carter
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/ricc/


On Jun 16, 2008, at 6:53 PM, Eric Korenman wrote:

> got to cover the creation and destruction of a Tibetan Mandala.
> www.korenman.com/lr/Mandala
>
> the first and last shots really hit me the most.
> These monks spent 6 days and nights working on this Mandala.
>
> After a 25 minutes ceremony of unbelievable chanting, they destroyed
> it and distributed the blessed sand to onlookers.
>
> t'was very powerful.
>
> Eric
>
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