The Power of Compassion - Tashi Lhunpo Monks

Last night (Saturday) I went to the "Power of Compassion" performance by the Tashi Lhunpo monks at the Quay Arts Centre in Newport and it was great to meet up with so many Buddhist friends from across the Island. This was the culmination of the monks five days on the Island. I missed the destruction ceremony for the sand mandala that the monks had so painstakingly constructed over the course of four days but was told by a friend from the wider Island sangha that the tide had been flowing and so the swept up sand had been sprinkled on the Medina to flow down to the sea! (if the tides not in then it's all mud next to the arts centre).

The performance was visually and audibly stunning, with rich brocade costumes and, in the confines of the Anthony Mingella Theatre, deafeningly loud Tibetan Dung Chens or long horns. The following short video of the skeleton dance (we're all bones underneath and life is impermanent - Buddhism 101) gives a flavour of the night.

THAT VIDEO HAS BEEN REMOVED (why?) - SO HERE IT IS AS PART OF ANOTHER VIDEO!

My own favourite was the performance of mudras