Impermanence
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Flickr Project 365/ Creative Every Day 2011
The girls and I had the honor of visiting the Westover School yesterday
to see Tibetan Monks creating a sand mandala.
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The monks, from the Drepung Gomang monastery in India,
have been working on this mandala for 4 days.
The sound was beautiful!
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Friday, at a closing ceremony, they will sweep up the sands and deposit them in a nearby river so they flow into the world.
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The making and destroying of sand mandalas is a way of practicing the Buddhist doctrine of the transitory nature of material things, impermanence.
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It was humbling to interact with the monks.
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We were even able to have our prayer flags blessed.
It was also very cool to just be inside the Westover School.
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The girls were very impressed with the dining hall!
Emma had to snap a photo.This trip is one we'll remember for a long, long time!