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Western Carolinian Volume 68 Number 09

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  • Pseudolus (played by Daniel Rohrig, left) and Hysterium (Trevor Perry) are ready for battle in this scene from Western Carolina Universitys production of the musical comedy A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. pegrenyrenne ee Visiting Tibetan Monks Create Sand Mandala By Jennifer Wilkey | WC Ten Tibetan monks from the Drepung Loseling monastery visited WCU last month with The Mystical Arts of Tibet tour. The monks spent the majority of their time in the UC atrium creating a traditional mandala sand painting for world purification and healing. Construction of the mandala began on Monday morning following an opening ceremony of chants, music and mantra recitation to bless the site where it would be created. The monks began by drawing the line design for the mandala, making complex geometrical patterns with sacred meanings. Using traditional metal funnels called chakpur. the monks then poured millions of grains of sand into the outline. Seventeen different colors of sand were used to create the five foot by five foot completed mandala, which took approximately 100 hours. The completion of The Buddha of Longevity mandala on Thursday was marked with a consecration ceremony, in which the monks requested continuous blessings on the work. The mandala was then dismantled during the closing ceremony. The sand was swept into a pile, symbolizing the impermanence of all that exists, and the monks distributed small bags of it to the audience members as personal blessings. The remaining sand was carried in a procession to the creek on campus, where it was ceremonially poured into the water to disperse the healing energies of the mandala throughout the world. The Drepung Loseling monks, famous for their multiphonic singing, also performed ancient temple music and dance for world healing in the Ramsey Center. The Mystical Arts of Tibet tour will visit as many as 75 different locations during its year-long exhibition. For more information, visit hitp://www.drepung.org. The Teton Mountains of the West will be the setting this summer for a Wilderness Education Association course offered through Western Carolina Universitys Division of Distance and Continuing Education. The Teton Steward Course will be held on the western slopes of the Tetons in Targhee National Forest for two weeks, June 1-16. The course is designed to teach technical skills involved in spring mountaineering and planning and executing expeditions, but it also will help participants develop leadership, judgment and decision-making skills, said Maurice Phipps, professor in Westerns department of Health and Human performance. While it is not a go-until-you-drop experience, the course is physically and mentally demanding, Phipps said. it will be taught by two WEA-certified instructors, Phipps and Aya Hayashi, a doctoral student in outdoor education at Indiana University. Participants will meet at Badger Creek Outdoor Center in Tetonia, idaho. Transportation is not provided from Cullowhee to Idaho. The cost of the course ranges from about $1,799 for participants from North Carolina to about $2,015 for out-of-state participants. Undergraduate and graduate academic credit is available. For more information, contact Maurice Phipps by e-mail at phipps@wcu.edu or by calling (828) 227-3844. A course Participants in a previous Teton Chward Course offered by Western Carolina Uinwersity learn a snow and ice brochure is.available at http://paws.wcu.edu/phipps/wea.html. _. ax rope technique. The course will be offered again June 1-16, (Photo courtesy of Dora Davis.) oD )
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