Sand Mandala and Closing Ceremony
Between Sunday, January 23 and Thursday, January 27 Tibetan monks of the Drepung
Loseling Monastery were in residence at the Weidner Center for the Performing
Arts on the UW-Green Bay campus. As a part of their educational outreach activities,
the monks constructed a sand painted mandala at Port Plaza Mall in downtown
Green Bay. On Thursday the monks concluded their residency with a closing ceremony
at the site of the mandala, followed by the mandala's destruction. Small packets
of the sand were distributed to those in attendance as a means of distributing
the mandala's positive energy. The remaining sand was taken to the nearby Fox
River and after a another brief ceremony the sand was poured into the river,
again, as a means of distributing its positive energy.
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