The Dalai Lama receiving the Key to the City of Pasadena, California in 1996 which opened “all doors” to him.
Monthly Archives: September 2012
Drepung Gomang Monks Release World Peace Sand Mandala in Kansas City
Tibetan monks from Drepung Gomang performed a sand mandala in Kansas City this last Friday, August 31, 2012 at the Unity Temple on the Plaza.
The intention is to create world peace. As stated by a previous monk who performs mandala ceremonies, they pay homage to “gods of the underworld”. This homage influences the region in which it is performed.
Tibetan Monks do NYC Sand Mandala Ceremony in 1 Day
New York, NY. Welcoming the Tibetan Buddhist monks to perform their religious ceremony of a sand mandala is Baruch College.
The event is sponsored by Baruch-Rubin Museum of Art Project.
Monks from the Namdroling Monastery located in Southern India will build the mandala in one day. Usually the creation of this ceremony is 4-7 days.
A mandala represents some kind of deity or deities. For instance the Kalachakra mandala contains 722 deities. The mandala ceremony honors these deities which can also be known as or called gods. It is intended that the ceremony will release a blessing into the region from these deities or gods.
Source TibetanMonksToBuildSandMandala.
LA Hit by an Earthquake.
In the early hours of Monday morning LA was hit by a small, 3.3 magnitude earthquake. The quake was centred on Beverly Hills. The quake seems to have left no damage.
Beverly Hills is located on the West Beverly Hills Lineament, this is connected to the Newport-Inglewood Fault System that caused the second deadliest quake in California’s history.
Venice Film Festival: Hollywood shines a light on Scientology – Telegraph
Venice Film Festival: Hollywood shines a light on Scientology – Telegraph.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s new movie “The Master”, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival tells the story of the early days of Scientology.
It has been revealed that Tom Crusie requested a private viewing of the movie before the premiere. Anderson would not disclose what Tom Cruise thought of the movie, saying only, “we are still friends”.
Tom Cruise is Scientology’s most famous follower. The movement has been called Hollywood’s cult with celebrities like John Travolta and Lisa Marie Presley also members.
The movie The Master is tipped as a potential winner of the Golden Lion, the Venice Festival’s most prestigious award.
Scientology was founded by L. Ron Hubbard in the 1950s. Hubbard also came up with the idea of “Project Celebrity” to promote his ideas. He targeted the big names of Hollywood at the time: Greta Garbo, Howard Hughes and Orson Welles. Hubbard was unsuccesful at gaining their support, unlike modern day Hollywood.
Scientology are also planning on launching a broadcasting service from near their Hollywood headquarters, to promote the teachings of Scientology to a global audience.
Hurricane Isaac Hit’s New Orleans on Katrina Anniversary
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When the tropical storm, began to develop in the Gulf, which would become Hurricane Isaac, meterologists began to warn that they thought it would hit land in Florida, as a category 1 storm. However, the storm turned and began to head straight for New Orleans.
As Isaac travelled through the Gulf, it hitting Haiti and the Dominican Republic, killing 24 in Haiti and 2 in the Dominican Republic.
Hurricane Isaac hit land at New Orleans exactly 7 years after Hurricane Katina devastated the city.
Although Isaac did not cause the damage of Katrina the new multi-billion dollar levee protecting the New Orleans coast was breached.
New York Fashion Week
New York is gearing up for fashion week, starting September 6th. We have previously reported on the impact fashion week has on the industry as a whole, and how it influences the lives or ordinary women.
John Galliano, former Director of Fashion for Dior. Galliano has been convicted of anti-semitism.
Fashion week occurs at Lincoln Centre New York, close to the location of the recent deaths in the city: the suicide of a man at the Peninsula Hotel on 5th Avenue, on the 8th August; a man shot by police in Times Square the following day; and the tragic shooting outside the Empire State building. The Empire State building shooting involved a man shooting a former work colleague, who worked in the fashion industry, nine others were injured, the gunman was also shot by police.