Coming Next Week to MOUNTS BOTANICAL GARDEN: Sacred Arts Tour Monks from South India

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Jan. 17, 2024 - PRLog -- (West Palm Beach, FL – January 16, 2024) Coming next week: Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden will welcome the Sacred Arts Tour Monks of Drepung Gomang Monastery, a Tibetan monastery in Karnataka State, South India, for six days of special events and experiences, Monday through Saturday, January 22-27, 2024.

These soul-stirring experiences that week at Mounts Botanical Garden will include:

• Daily Opening & Closing Ceremonies
• Sand Mandala Creation
• Mala Making / SOLD OUT
• Pet Blessings
• Authentic Tibetan Cooking Class & Dinner with Monks / SOLD OUT
• Cultural Pageant & Final Closing Ceremony

Workshops and activities will be led by the tour monks. Registration is required, space is limited.

"Proceeds from the Sacred Arts Tour help the monks from the Drepung Gomang Monastery to raise support for the refugee monks' community in south India for proper food, improvement in health and hygiene, and for providing better education facilities for the monk students to preserve their traditions and culture," says Mounts Interim Co-Director Misty Stoller.

For complete details on the Sacred Arts Tour taking place next week at Mounts Botanical Garden, visit https://www.mounts.org/sacred-arts-tour-drepung-gomang-monastery/

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Created by Santa Fe artists Jennifer and Kevin Box, 20 larger-than-life sculptures inspired by the ancient Japanese art of origami will emerge skyward throughout Mounts—each one a stunning merger of art and nature enhancing and celebrating the verdant environment, including 25-foot sculpture representing 1,000 stainless steel origami peace cranes. ORIGAMI IN THE GARDEN opens at Mounts January 7 and runs through May 12, 2024. Admission is $20 for adults; $18 for seniors (65+), college students, and military with ID; $13 for ages 6-17; and free for children under 6.

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Attached Jpegs:

(Photo Credit: Sacred Arts Tour – Drepung Gomang Monastery)

1.   The Sacred Arts Tour Monks

2.   Sand Mandala with the Sacred Arts Tour Monks

Available for Interview:

Misty Stoller

Interim Co-Director

Mounts Botanical Garden

954.292.8169 / mstoller@pbcgov.org

Media Contact:

Gary Schweikhart, PR-BS

561.756.4298 / gary@pr-bs.net