Medicine Buddha Mandala July 15-20th 2024

Everyone is welcome to Reno Buddhist Center for the creation of a Medicine Buddha Mandala!   We are open daily for 5 days! 
from 10:00am - 5:00pm  daily  July 15th - 20th.

Ven. Losang Samten will also offer teachings: 
Cultivating Compassion at RBC July 17th 6:00pm
Death and Dying at the River School Farm July 19th at 6:00pm
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The Medicine Buddha Mandala is a sacred design that manifests the healing power of wisdom and compassion.  Medicine Buddha has the power to heal physical, mental, and emotional illnesses, as well as to alleviate suffering and promote spiritual well-being. The Medicine Buddha mandala is used in meditation and in rituals to connect with healing energy and wisdom.  
The Medicine Buddha mandala features a central image of Medicine Buddha surrounded by other devas, symbols, and elements of the natural world. The mandala is depicted in vibrant colors and has intricate designs that reflect the complexity of the universe and the interdependence of all life. 

​​Our special guest artist , Venerable Losang Samten was born in central Tibet. In 1959 he and his family fled to Nepal and later moved to Dharamsala, India.  He studied at the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts and at His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Namgyal Monastery. There, in 1985, he earned a Master's Degree in Buddhist Philosophy, Sutra, and Tantra, and became a master of ritual dance and of sand mandalas. 
In 1988, Losang came to the United States to demonstrate the meditative art of sand painting for the first time in the west. Since then, he has created sand mandalas at the Natural History Museum in New York City, Chicago Field Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and numerous museums.
By 2002, the National Endowment for the Arts named him a National Heritage Fellow, the nation’s highest honor in folk and traditional arts. In 2004, he was awarded a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. He is spiritual director of the Tibetan Buddhist Center of Philadelphia, and Chenrezig Tibetan Buddhist Centers of Middletown and El Paso.

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