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

November 5, 2008 – 11:33 am

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 [...]

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Westminster College – New Wilmington, PA

October 18, 2008 – 1:06 pm

October 13th through the 17th After our visit to the Cleveland area, we made the beautiful drive to Westminster College in New Wilmington, PA. The trees are changing to their Autum colors with brillant shades of red, orange, brown, and everything in between. This part of the country is also the home of many Amish [...]

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Sand mandala to be swept away tonight in Grand Junction

October 4, 2008 – 10:56 am

GRAND JUNCTION — Today is the last opportunity to view the colorful sand mandala that six Buddhist monks have taken turns working diligently on for the past three days at the Western Colorado Center for the Arts. By tonight the mandala will be swept up, and the sand dissolved into the Colorado River. The monks [...]

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Dharma on wheels

September 26, 2008 – 7:46 pm

By SARA ARTHURS - Staff Writer With Tibet occupied by China, much of the Tibetan Buddhist population is in exile in India. But this week, a small group of Tibetan Buddhist monks is venturing further afield — to Findlay. Monks from the Gaden Shartse Monastery are traveling throughout the United States to educate people on Tibetan [...]

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