Tibet and Dalai Lama get the Dave Emory Treatment

[dude h homeslice ix]

<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://wfmu.org/playlists/DX">wfmu.org/playlists/DX</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>programs 547 and 548. <p></p><i></i>

[Gouda]

Thanks dude. I have a few acquaintances who get dewy for the dalai and so they'll be getting this in their inbox with all associated links on spitfirelist and the program summary:<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://ftrsummary.blogspot.com/">ftrsummary.blogspot.com/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>However, though one can lead a person to links, one may not get her/him to open them. So once I get myself up to speed, dinner conversation ought to get interesting for them. <p></p><i></i>

[Gouda]

Whoa, very interesting - Emory reminds us that not long after the first WTC bombings, a tantric kalachakra sand mandala was built and destroyed in the lobby of WTC 1 to "consecrate" the environment.<br><br>Reference here at the Trimondi site:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.iivs.de/~iivs01311/SDLE/Part-2-15.htm">www.iivs.de/~iivs01311/SD...t-2-15.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Following the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, “The Samaya Foundation, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the Port Authority jointly sponsored the Wheel of Time (Kalachakra) Sand Mandala, or Circle of Peace, in the lobby of Tower 1.” (Darton 1999, p. 219) For over thirty days, many of the World Trade Center workers and visitors were invited by the Namgyal Monks to participate in the construction of the mandala. It is said that, “ Its shape symbolized nature’s unending cycle of creation and destruction and in the countless grains of its material, it celebrated life’s energy taking ephemeral form, then returning to its source. At the end of the mandala’s month long lifespan, the monks swept up the sand and “offered it to the Hudson River.” This ritual, they believed, purified the environment. (Darton 1999, p. 219)<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Report of a former participant of the Kalachakra Ceremony in New York: “Get a call from one of my Kalachakra sisters I haven't heard from since the Indiana Kalachakra in '99. […] The topic shifted to the Kalachakra Mandala that was made at One World Trade Center. I was at the dissolution ceremony there, may be around '96. The monks gathered up all the sand from the Mandala at 1 WTC, put it in a vase, then carried it across the bridge into World Financial Center through the Winter Garden, then dumped the sand ceremoniously into the Hudson River for the sake of World Peace. The surface of the river glittered with the afternoon sun, and I cried. 5 years later, the whole building is gone, just like the sand Mandala.” See: <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~kamitera/n">home.earthlink.net/~kamitera/n</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i></i>