Prophecy, Karma and a Buddhist Icon in Glendale - small charcoal grill

During the year of the Earth cattle in 749, an enlightened master of Buddhist extraordinary power went to the Tibetan Kingdom of the Himalayas.
Master Rinpoche was born in the milk sea area of Pakistan.
The old legend says he can resist death and bring the teachings to Tibet at the age of 1,000.
One of them is a secret blueprint for a map of the Enlightenment shrine called ShiTro mandala.
It is said that mandala is so powerful that it alone can free anyone from all negative karma ---
The inevitable consequences of harmful behavior.
It can translate anger and fear into altruism and compassion.
Chronicles says that in the year of the Monkey in 804, Guru left Tibet with a wonderful display of miracles, riding horses across the sky in front of a group of surprised people.
Before he left, he predicted that these teachings would arrive in the world one day.
"When the iron bird flies," he wrote, "the teaching will go to the West.
"Now, in the year of Iron Dragon in 2000, a Tibetan master and his staff are using the ancient blueprint of Glendale to build the first three --
American size mandala.
Pema namdol thaye in Glendale Forest Lawn Memorial Park iconic of white cross of shadow under work is busy for similar to 100 a peace and anger of God of Temple add jewelry and
By the end of October, this icon of complex art and strong spirituality will be 10 feet high and will take 9 months and $250,000 to build.
This week, Tibet's 14 th Dalai Lama, who will personally bless the project, arrived in Los Angeles on Friday for a week-long Buddhist teaching.
For Lama Chodak Gyatso Nubpa, the Mandala Project represents an urgent competition to protect the disappearing cultural and religious arts.
Almost every large monastery has a standard fixture.
More than 6,000 temples were destroyed during the Chinese Communist party's nearly 50-year occupation of Tibet, and the 3D Mandala has become very rare.
But project members also believe that mandala is not just an important museum art or esoteric Buddhist practice.
Their driving motivation is to bring the benefits of mandala to the street: to gang and truck drivers, teachers, dot-
Communicate and open your heart to children-
They see real peace as possible.
Members of the Lamas's Los Feliz center Chagdud Gonpa t'hondup Ling are working on a non-sectarian course for peace education, which will take place as mandala begins its national tour
Two members, Linda Maxwell and Jose Quintana, are holding a public workshop to teach people how to use mandala to develop compassion.
They took the mandala training to places such as the Scudder camp, the youth detention center in Saugus, to help the wayward children understand that they have a sacred center.
Other project members are marketing Mandala in a hip and humorous way: "Stone-Tro Happens.
"An image movement designed to create a sensational effect in a young, not necessarily Buddhist crowd, showing a planned Tibetan music CD
Stylish flash graphics card linked to the project website (
And from T-
The shirt is fragrant.
Some people may think mandolo is hocus.
But it attracts
Generation after generation of Tibetans
For example, Carl Jung, a Swiss psychologist, believes that the circle is a universal symbol of the divine, once called the "antidote to a chaotic state of mind ".
"For Shi-
Team Tro, this project is a test and a victory for faith.
They began with a bold belief that a small Buddhist center could sponsor such a complex project that no one in the United States had tried.
But the project has begun to draw imagination from musicians like Stephen Stiles and actress Sharon Stone to supporters like restaurant owner Lucy Casado;
From the Forest Lawn to the whole food market and the Silk Road Gallery.
Lama knows.
"When you do anything without selfish motives," he said, "there is no doubt that you will succeed. "A Joke-
Cracking the Lama for LA.
Lama Chodak Gyatso Nubpa is 49 years old and has a strong figure, a shaved head, white teeth and a bright smile.
As a suitable Lama in Los Angeles, he can crack Jay Leno's jokes in a flash and then devote himself to intensive Buddhist lectures in the following time.
He has a special background: Starting at the age of 4, the oldest order in Tibetan Buddhism, known as the training of Ningma.
Advanced degree in Buddhist Studies--
Metaphysics, psychology, logic, classics and classics-
From the famous Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies in India.
Chairman of the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile.
But when asked about his background, he replied, "I feel ashamed because my level of practice is too bad.
I'm still sleeping.
"Today, through a marriage with Warner Bros. Records artist development and creative marketing director Linnea Nan, Lama jiatu spans two worlds of ancient Tibetan Wisdom and American pop culturein Burbank.
The two met shortly after the Lama moved to Los Angeles on 1997 at the request of his teacher Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche.
Because he had heard her last name wrong and thought she was a Buddhist nun, he agreed to meet with Nan.
Nan is in her thirties with translucent skin and long red hair on her head.
Between the marketing activities of k. d.
Lang, Joni Mitchell and others, Nan is leading the mandolo image movement.
She came up with "Shi-
The slogan of turnover rate.
He didn't understand.
What does mandala have to do with yak dung?
One aspect of the project for them is very personal: for their 16-month-
Old son, Rigzin Tinley Nob.
Of course, more than that.
This is the need to heal the terrible legacy left by Tibetan butchers, Holocaust followers, Glendale gang fighters, child abuse ---
There is so much violence everywhere, leaving so much lingering pain, not just the victims.
The perpetrators, the bad guys, need more help, Lamas said.
Forgiveness is not an intellectual exercise for the Lama.
When more than 1950 Communist Chinese invaded his home country, they arrested and tortured his father, an influential community leader from a long list of Lamas
During his parole at the trial, his father packed up his family and fled the ice.
The Himalayas.
All 15 children in his family have set off.
Only five people survived.
Some of Lama's younger brothers and sisters, the baby, died in his arms.
The 8-year-old boy, who has been trained in Buddhism for 4 years, holds the body of his brothers and sisters, thinking that it is not revenge, but sympathy ---
How his prayers benefit his family in the afterlife.
More than 40 years later-after about 1.
2 million Tibetans killed under Chinese rule-
Lamas still speak only sympathy.
Shouldn't you blame Chinese soldiers for these terrorist incidents?
No, he said, they were just following orders. Who, then?
Maybe Chairman Mao Zedong.
Lama, the Lama says, but once you think that his actions will make him affected by the law of karma for cause and effect, rather than feeling anger and hatred, you will naturally have compassion
"This kind of disciplined spiritual training ---
Transform angry thoughts with kind and generous thoughts-
It is a demanding Road.
The Lama said: "This road is not accessible to everyone . "
"This is a path of soldiers.
"On a clear spring day, the lama sat on the cross, without any negative space
Walk on a purple mat and burn powder incense, Juniper leaves and other substances on a small charcoal grill.
The work of building Mandala starts here, in the open air --
The Sky square behind the Forest Lawn Museum.
The Lama explained that the smoking ceremony purified the environment and purified the "flow of thinking" or consciousness of all living things in the area.
Negative emotions, he said, greatly dilute the blessings of mandala.
The most important goal for Tibetan artists is to cultivate a pure motivation.
Not art. Not self-expression.
Not original
The interest of others is the driving intention. The Shi-
Artist-Mandala-
Thaye, his wife, Guy, brother, Kunzang--
Meditation begins every morning to purify their minds.
Thaye, 33, is one of the few artists in the world with rich artistic talent and Buddhist knowledge. D mandala.
Since the age of 14, he has been an apprentice with his Uncle Lama Gonpo Tenzing, who is considered one of Tibet's existing national treasures.
Complex works include carpentry, painting, and character shaping from the Sea Dragon to the gods.
But the dense spiritual meaning embedded in each post, measure, and form is the most striking.
For example, the four doors leading to the palace represent the "four inmeasurable things" of kindness, compassion, calm and joy ".
The lion beam with symbolic power and a circle of fire in which all negative power is burned and transformed into wisdom.
"I don't think it's just a piece of wood," Thaye said . ".
"I am building a mansion for the gods, so I approach it with great respect.
John Listopad, assistant curator of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, said: "The focus on originality has no exact similarities in Western art.
"Tibetan art is a kind of psychological art and meditation art," Listopad said . ".
"This is an art that has an impact on people and their personalities.
It can calm you down and help you find peace and balance.
"On 1995, when Los Angeles city councillor Mike Hernandez invited Tibetan monks to build two sand mandal in the hostile gang community of Cypress Park and the montesito Heights, the project appears to have a tangible impact on easing tensions.
Louis Barreto recalled: "I saw the children put away their rough side and become civilized . " He made a documentary about the Cypress Park project and is now helpingTro team.
"When these monks told you, 'My father was killed by the Chinese. . .
But I like them. what do you want to say?
This guy spit in my low place.
So I'm going to kill him?
"Under the guidance of Lama jiacho, the educational principles of mandolo will be placed on the street.
Two of his members are Maxwell and Quintana.
The couple, using the Mandala Principle in a non-sectarian way, trained thousands of young people in peace education, conflict resolution, job training and life skills through their Glendale
We are concerned about youth, a non-profit organization.
On this day, Maxwell and Quintana will bring mandolo training to 14 teenagers at Camp Scudder.
The boy is between 16 and 18 years old.
They rob, sell drugs, take drugs, dodge bullets and shoot.
Maxwell guides them to define themselves, not through their dark deeds, but through their pure heart.
Do they?
These people with criminal records?
Maxwell has no time to find out.
She asked who had lost their loved ones.
One hand per person.
An uncle was shot in the alley.
A cousin out of the way in a gang fight. A best friend;
So many friends
Another uncle. -
Kidnapped, killed, thrown into the bin.
My little one, I didn't even go to the funeral. Tears fall.
"The reason we do this is to show you that we all have a common condition," Maxwell said gently . ".
"We will all die.
"Other common conditions: We all have the heart;
Otherwise they wouldn't crash like this.
We all want to be happy.
With this, Maxwell provides a basic teaching of Buddhism-
The impermanence of life, cultivating compassion for others by focusing on what we share ---
Buddhism was not mentioned once.
She then told them each to draw a chart of his own mandala, a circle center and a lotus shape of eight petals.
Buddhist practitioners heal and meditate by identifying themselves with the symbol of divine power in the center of the circle.
Maxwell translated it into a simpler language.
The center is your pure self.
Petals are the things that protect it. Draw it.
Some people start work right away.
Others seem confused.
No one ever asked them to think about their kindness.
However, by the end of the session, everyone successfully completed the task.
Adam drew a blue center with the word "love, happiness.
His biggest protector: Mom.
"Hate is out there.
It's what people see all day long, but they don't know me.
Sometimes it is OK to express your kindness.
"At his center, Gary gave the names of a heart, family, Watt and two loved ones.
In a petal, he outlined a cross as the protector. -
But since he is not sure of his beliefs, he has not covered it up.
Others are centered on the heart, smiling faces and prayers.
"Use this when you get back to the street," Maxwell pointed to the center of mandala . ".
"That's why you shine.
Don't do anything that makes you lose your mind.
Remember: just like you, others feel deeply.
"Teenagers don't change overnight.
But the Lama would say that the mandala planted a seed of consciousness on them, which would certainly mature at some point. And the Shi-Tro mandala--
They will see this when they join the Dalai Lama's blessing ---
Lamas say they can be liberated and all the people who suffer.
That's why he brought it.
"We need a major treatment," said the Lama . "
"We don't have much time.