Incensos e Bandeiras Sagradas do Tibet

Foto Elton Melo - Pema Sonam

Em tibetano: "Chagdud Gonpa Odsal Ling - Bandeiras de Oração - Pema Sonam 2008"

Incensos consagrados por lamas tibetanos criam um vasto campo de energia positiva. Atraem boa fortuna, felicidade, proteção e bem estar. Aliviam a tensão da mente e do ambiente. Seu aroma é suave e agradável. É um suporte perfeito para meditações e é testado e aprovado como auxiliares eficazes no tratamento de alergias respiratórias. Contem pó abençoado em retiro nos quais mestres e praticantes budistas recitam mantras de purificação extensivamente. Atraem energias positivas para nossos empreendimentos e aspirações. São oferecidos em memória de pessoas falecidas, seres celestiais e divindades protetoras. São uma oferenda altamente eficaz para pacificar energias muito negativas. Os incensos tibetanos são maciços, sem varetas, o que resulta num longo tempo de queima e contém, como oferenda, mais de duzentos ingredientes como leite, manteiga, mel, melado, farinha, açúcares, flores, cereais, substâncias medicinais. Eles vem do Butão, Nepal e Tibet.

As bandeiras sagradas também passam por um ritual de purificação onde são removidas as impurezas geradas na sua produção. A seguir, são energizadas por mestes tibetanos com as bênçãos dos seres iluminados. Isto as torna sagradas e devem ser manipuladas com cuidado e respeito, evitando pisar sobre elas, passar por cima ou descartá-las em lixo comum. Tradicionalmente as bandeiras são erguidas ao vento e mantidas por um ano e então substituidas por novas. As bandeiras, assim como todo material budistas a ser descartado, devem ser queimadas. De acordo com a astrologia budista, há dias propícios para se erguer as bandeiras. No entanto, é muito comum vê-las se esfarrapando ao vento e às neves "eternas" dos Himalayas.

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His Holiness Speech during Kalachakra Amravati

Animal skins

His Holiness Speech during Kalachakra Amravati
Translation by Monlam Lobsang

Since the real source of unpleasant feelings is our mind and its attitude so it is very important to change the way we look at things and this is what Dharma does.
Whether we believe in rebirth or not, one thing is same - we all want happiness and comfort. Within the community if there are principles, decency and honesty, this will obviously benefit the community. Likewise, if the human community is based on principles of peace, it will lessen the sufferings caused to Millions and Billions of animals. Otherwise, out of human’s limitless and unjustified greed and desires, they build Beef Farms, Pig Farms, and Fish Farms which never existed before and are not needed. And now, when the animals bring diseases they are killed in large numbers. So many fishes are killed and they suffer so much. For example, in Tibet the populations of wild animals like KYANG (Tibetan Wild Ass), TSOE (Tibetan antelope), NNAYA (Wild Sheep), GGO (Gazelle) and DRONG (Wild Yak) used to be huge but in recent times, due to intense hunting the population of these animals have shrunk and some even faces the danger of extinction.People have started realizing and caring about these issues now, including the Chinese government which is really good.These days in Tibet it seems the number of people involved in the Meat business is increasing which is a very pitiful condition. This shows how human greed leads to the suffering of animals. These days a lot of people are working for the protection of our environment which is great. But environment alone isn't enough, it's also very important to protect the animals and birds living in it because that is what surrounds us and that is what we are a part of. These creatures are a thing of joy and beauty.If we keep torturing these animals for our own benefits then it’s a very pitiful condition. The fashion of wearing animal skin is a matter of shame.Until recently, Tibetans living in India didn't have any bad reputation but recently, there were cases where Tibetans were involved in wildlife trade, smuggling and other such things. It's a matter of shame. Although I am just one ordinary single individual yet I have a social responsibility. So, when I keep hearing such sad and shameful stories at this age, sometimes I feel there is no use living in this world.These days there are many Tibetan groups in India working for Vegetarianism and spreading compassion for animals, such acts are extremely good and something to rejoice. Most of the monasteries have also turned their kitchen into vegetarian which is really good.Strong attachment towards the fashion of costly jewelries and wearing animal skins is an act of stupidity, a stigma on Tibetans and a matter of shame. Beauty should be skin deep. If you have spiritual knowledge, that's the best jewelry you can wear. I would like the Tibetans who have come from Tibet, to pass these messages to their brothers and sisters in Tibet. Tell them that I'm ashamed of their act - the use of animal skins and furs.So, if we can transform our mind based on the principles of peace, it will benefit so many animals and not only animals but also our environment. Transformation of mind is something which is very important and is something that can only be done from within.

Picasso e Cézanne lideram lista dos 200 artistas do século XX

Gustav Klimt

Judith I - 14"x3"

http://www.gustavklimtcollection.com/pages/main.html

Ter, 09 Jun, 08h34
Londres, 9 jun (EFE).

Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne e um artista pouco conhecido, o fundador da secessão austríaca Gustav Klimt, lideram, por enquanto, uma lista dos 200 artistas mais importantes do século XX.
A relação, que aparece no site do jornal britânico "The Times", é feita a partir de votos dos leitores, e pode causar espanto caso sejam adotados critérios puramente estéticos.
Os três artistas são seguidos pelo impressionista Claude Monet, pelo pai da arte conceptual, Marcel Duchamp, pelo grande rival de Picasso, Henri Matisse, o expressionista abstrato americano Jackson Pollock, o pioneiro da pop art Andy Warhol, o expressionista Willem de Kooning, e o abstrato radical holandês Piet Mondrian, em décimo.
George Braque, o outro mestre do cubismo junto a Picasso, aparece em 14º, atrás, por exemplo, de Francis Bacon e Robert Rauschenberg.
Por sua vez, a mexicana Frida Kahlo aparece em 19º, antes de Paul Klee (21º), Alberto Giacometti (25º), Salvador Dalí (26º) ou o escultor Auguste Rodin (27º).

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