{"id":1545,"date":"2002-01-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-01-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/01\/12\/2002-01-12-sand-art-commemorates-pentagon-crash\/"},"modified":"2002-01-12T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-01-12T12:00:00","slug":"2002-01-12-sand-art-commemorates-pentagon-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/01\/12\/2002-01-12-sand-art-commemorates-pentagon-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Sand Art Commemorates Pentagon Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/arts\/AP-Buddhist-Art.html\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, USA, January 12, 2001: Four Buddhist monks, exiled from Tibet by Chinese rule, belonging to a 20-man team from a branch in Atlanta of their monastery, began to lay out a seven-foot work of symbolic art in 20 colors of sand a &#8220;healing mandala&#8221; for the pain of the attack on the Pentagon. &#8220;For at least 13 centuries,&#8221; said Lobsang Tenzin, leader of the monks&#8217; group, &#8220;the Tibetans relied highly on spiritual practices, spiritual rituals as a way to bring a certain resolution to conflicts and it is our legacy that in these difficult times we can offer to America.&#8221; The artists will work in relays through January 27, depositing the sand from little funnels and holding ceremonial chants twice daily. The mandala symbolizes the whole universe, and also a palace where deities live.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE WASHINGTON, USA, January 12, 2001: Four Buddhist monks, exiled from Tibet by Chinese rule, belonging to a,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}