<\/a><\/p>\nNamgyal monks creating Kalachakra Mandala.<\/I><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
In the summer of 1989<\/I>, Namgyal monks assisted His Holiness with a Kalachakra initiation in Los Angeles. While one group of monks performed the preliminary rituals, including the creation of a sand mandala and the performance of two ritual dances, another group of four monks created a duplicate mandala at the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History. Since then, Namgyal monks have created sand mandalas at numerous museums and galleries, including the San Francisco Asian Art Museum, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, and the IBM Gallery in New York City, setting records for attendance at many locations.<\/p>\n
Through their cultural and spiritual teachings, the Namgyal monks have brought the awareness of the culture and religion of Tibet to the world.<\/p>\n
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Potala Palace in Tibet. Namgyal Monastery was founded in 16th-century Tibet by the second Dalai Lama, Gendun Gyatso. Since its founding, the Namgyal monks have assisted the Dalai Lamas in public religious affairs and have performed ritual prayer ceremonies for the welfare of Tibet. The monastery was also established as an esteemed center of learning, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":723,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/namgyaloc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/namgyaloc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/namgyaloc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgyaloc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgyaloc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/namgyaloc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1185,"href":"https:\/\/namgyaloc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/608\/revisions\/1185"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgyaloc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/namgyaloc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}