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Monks on a Mission

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 [...]

Buddhist monks revisit Westminster

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 [...]

Art as lesson in impermanence

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 [...]

What’s Up With That?: Art of the temporary variety

By Harry Funk, Online editor Everyone knows what art is. It hangs in galleries, behind velvet ropes and in ornate frames, for aficionados to enjoy for generations to come. Sure, that’s the way you learned it in school: da Vinci and Rembrandt, Manet and Monet, van Gogh and van Dyck. Art for the ages. But [...]