Monthly Archives: November 2008

Monks on a Mission

November 19, 2008 – 2:30 pm

Seven Tibetan Buddhist monks have been traveling across the United States, and on Monday, they stopped at Willard Chapel for a special presentation on peace and compassion. The Gaden Shartse Monks begin a lecture at Willard Chapel with a Tibetan chant. The monks had spent the day in central New York blessing a home and [...]

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Cambridge Massachusetts

November 15, 2008 – 1:34 pm

We just finished our visit to Massachusetts and I am getting further behind on my writing. I do have a few minutes here in a hotel lobby in Niagara Falls (where we are spending the night on our journey to Lincoln, Nebraska. The plan is to get some sleep, take a look at the falls, [...]

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Buddhist monks revisit Westminster

November 5, 2008 – 11:51 am

People create and change karma, one says By Matt Snyder  Herald Staff Writer    The Buddhists of the Gaden Shartse monastery in India opened their talk Wednesday at Westminster College by chanting a prayer, which began as a low rumble of words, five monks harmonizing together. They shifted halfway through to higher notes that resonated [...]

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Art as lesson in impermanence

November 5, 2008 – 11:38 am

By Dawn Keller - Staff writer Six Gaden Shartse monks will spend the next three days creating sand artwork and spreading the message of tolerance and compassion at Washington & Jefferson College. The Buddhist monks are traveling across the world to share their message and raise money for monasteries in India. The Gaden Shartse monastery was [...]

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