{"id":262,"date":"2007-10-09T17:09:22","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T00:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=262"},"modified":"2007-10-09T17:09:22","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T00:09:22","slug":"the-dalai-lama-in-ithaca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"The Dalai Lama in Ithaca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.news.cornell.edu\/stories\/Oct07\/Mandala.caption.gl.html\"><img ALT=\"dalai lama at Johnson Museum\" ALIGN=\"right\" SRC=\"http:\/\/www.news.cornell.edu\/stories\/Oct07\/DalaiLamaMandala1.jpg\" \/><\/a>The Dalai Lama is in town to dedicate a new monastery here in Ithaca, and spent most of the day on the Cornell campus.  He stopped by the Johnson Art Museum to bless both a sand and a  string mandala that monks from India have been working on since September 11.  It&#8217;s been an experience to see them the past few weeks strolling across campus in their robes in the warm fall weather on their way to Collegetown for their lunch break.<\/p>\n<p>The Ithaca Journal has some great photo essays of the monks at work constructing the <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.theithacajournal.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/gallery?Avis=AF&amp;Dato=20071003&amp;Kategori=SPECIAL01&amp;Lopenr=710030806&amp;Ref=PH&amp;Profile=1002\">string mandala<\/a> and <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.theithacajournal.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20071006\/NEWS01\/71003007\/1002\">sand mandala.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.news.cornell.edu\/\">Cornell Chronicle<\/a> also has great coverage of the visit, and the web folks have <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.cornell.edu\/video\/details.cfm?vidID=101&amp;display=player\">streaming video of the Dalai Lama&#8217;s address<\/a> to a full house at Barton Hall.  It&#8217;s worth a peak just for the invocation chant by the monks.  I only caught bits and pieces this afternoon.  But from what I could hear, the Dalai Lama is entertaining (jovial is the word that came to mind) as well as enlightening.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.theithacajournal.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/gallery?Avis=AF&amp;Dato=20071003&amp;Kategori=SPECIAL01&amp;Lopenr=710030806&amp;Ref=PH&amp;Profile=1002\"><img ALT=\"monk working on madala\" SRC=\"http:\/\/cmsimg.theithacajournal.com\/apps\/pbcsi.dll\/bilde?NewTbl=1&amp;Avis=AF&amp;Dato=20071003&amp;Kategori=SPECIAL01&amp;Lopenr=710030806&amp;Ref=PH&amp;Item=5&amp;MaxW=500&amp;MaxH=500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dalai Lama is in town to dedicate a new monastery here in Ithaca, and spent most of the day on the Cornell campus. He stopped by the Johnson Art Museum to bless both a sand and a string mandala that monks from India have been working on since September 11. It&#8217;s been an experience &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=262\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Dalai Lama in Ithaca&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}