Coming Next Week to Mounts Botanical Garden: The Sacred Arts Tour Monks, January 6-11

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Jan. 3, 2025 - PRLog -- (West Palm Beach, FL – January 2, 2025) For the second year in a row, the Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden will welcome the Sacred Arts Tour Monks of Drepung Gomang Monastery, a Tibetan monastery in Karnataka State, South India, for five days of special events and a variety of experiences, next Monday through Saturday, January 6-11, 2025.

Workshops and activities will be led by the tour monks. Registration is required; space is limited.

January 6-11

Sacred Arts Tour Monks

Monday through Saturday 10:00 am to 4:00 pm

General Admission January 11 for the Cultural Pageant and final Closing Ceremony is $30 per day for Nonmembers (includes Garden admission), and $10 per day for Members. Monk-led workshops and activities are not included with general admission pass. Saturday admission for the Cultural Pageant and Closing Mandala Dissolution Ceremony is not included.

Multiple Day Discount is $100 per person for Nonmembers and $20 for Members. This special pass pays for four days with the fifth free (Monday through Friday only) and includes access to daily opening and closing ceremonies, viewing the Sand Mandala construction, and authentic Tibetan Marketplace.

For complete details or to purchase tickets to the Sacred Arts Tour at Mounts Botanical Garden from January 6-11, 2025, visit https://www.mounts.org/sacred-arts-tour-drepung-gomang-monastery/.

Sacred Arts Tour at Mounts Botanical Garden

Join us in welcoming the monks from the Drepung Gomang monastery who are renowned for the Sacred Art of Sand Mandala Construction. They will be creating a Green Tara Sand Mandala (Dol jang), which is the Female Buddha that grants protection and relief from suffering, and generates compassion, love, and peace. Construction of a mandala of this size and intricacy takes 5-7 days to complete with multiple monks working on it for 5-6 hours a day. Each day's events include opening ceremonies and informal conversation with the monks as the mandala is created. Before and after working on the mandala each day, the monks recite prayers in the traditional overtone chanting, with each monk singing a full chord of three notes.

Attached Jpegs:

(Photo Credit: Sacred Arts Tour – Drepung Gomang Monastery)

1.   The Sacred Arts Tour Monks Create a Sand Mandala

2.   Sand Mandala & Altar

3.   The Sacred Arts Tour Monks Closing Ceremony

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Misty Stoller, Director of Marketing & Communications

Mounts Botanical Garden

954.292.8169 / mstoller@pbcgov.org

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Gary Schweikhart, PR-BS

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