Drepung Loseling Monks visit the Jupiter Campus

As part of their Mystical arts tour, the monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery [and here] came to the Jupiter Campus of Florida Atlantic University to produce a sand mandala. The mandala they produced for us was a medicine mandala.

The Mystical Arts of Tibet is a world tour endorsed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to promote world peace and healing by sharing Tibet’s rich and authentic sacred performing and visual arts with modern audiences.  The tours offer a rare opportunity to witness one of the world’s most ancient sacred traditions presented by a group of monk artists for whom these traditions are a way of life [Drepung, 2017].

The event was organized by Jupiter Campus Life Staff and hosted by the Jupiter campus library. After they finished their ceremony, they gave each of us a small bag of the sand used to create the mandala, as a way to pass along the healing energy and beauty. The rest of the sand was placed into a body of water to spread the healing energy and beauty to the rest of the world.

This was an extremely calming and inspirational event to witness. We are lucky.

Here are images of the event.