Tour Log

A Day In The Life

September 14, 2010 – 12:39 pm

Tibetan monks focus on prayer The monks from Gaden Shartse Monastery have departed northwest Ohio after educating many area residents about Buddhist traditions. The spokesman and translator for the Tibetan monks, Jangchub Chophel, described a typical day at Gaden Shartse Monastery recently.Monasteries are home to men older than 90 and children as young as age 6. [...]

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La Prensa Newspaper

September 14, 2010 – 9:08 am

Photos courtesy of NC Abrams Tibetan monks visit Northwest Ohio bringing Buddhist blessings and compassion By Alan Abrams, La Prensa Senior Correspondent Findlay, Sept. 2, 2010: Wearing their distinctive traditional and colorful saffron-and-maroon colored robes and crested Shama hats, seven Tibetan monks are spending two weeks in Northwest Ohio bringing Buddhist blessings to people and [...]

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Art for art’s sake

September 9, 2010 – 8:32 am

Monks to create meticulous mandala, then destroy it Red Tornado Art Gallery in Findlay hosts Tibetan monks who created a sand mandala in the gallery last week. The monks are to construct a smaller mandala Thursday in the lobby of the Campus Center at Heidelberg University. When the Tibetan monks arrived in the area last [...]

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Tibetan monks conduct event in Falls

August 28, 2010 – 5:28 am

Buddhist center holds empowerment ritual CUYAHOGA FALLS: The smell of incense filled the room as more than 60 people gathered for a Green Tara empowerment ceremony at the Akron-Canton Shambhala. Four Tibetan monks from the Gaden Shartse Monastery in India assisted in the ceremony held this week at the Buddhist meditation center on Portage Trail. [...]

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