| Cry of the Crane - The Q-Music Award Winner | |
Videos of the US 2007 Tour |
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| St. John the Divine in NYC | Namgyal Monks create mandala |
Namgyal monks working on Mandala at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City on November 7th, 2007. |
Namgyal monks from the Dalai Lama's private monastery in Dharamsala, India, at The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art on October 5, 2007 |
| Stop Frame Mandala | Dissolution Ceremony |
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum uses stop frame technology to show Namgyal monks from the Dalai Lama's private monastery in Dharamsala, India, conducting the age-old ceremony of creating and destroying a traditional sand mandala, a ritual that remains true to one of the most profound tenets in Buddhism—impermanence. |
The mandala is a particularly poignant and important ritual art form. In Tibetan, this art is called dul-tson-kyil-khor, which literally means "mandala of colored powders." Using a metal funnel, the monks patiently and meticulously place millions of grains of brightly colored sand to form intricate geometric designs that contain ancient, spiritual symbols. Visitors of The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art were welcomed to participate in the dissolution ceremony where the design is destroyed and ritually returned to nature. |
| Tenzin Choegyal Performance | Tenzin Choegyal Performance |
Tibetan Musician Tenzin Choegyal performs a nomadic song as a homage to his parents at a concert at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Musem. |
Tibetan Musician Tenzin Choegyal performs a song about a mother crane and and a baby crane on a lake in Tibet at a concert at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Musem. |