{"id":37675,"date":"2014-01-22T08:27:29","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T12:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=37675"},"modified":"2014-01-15T22:35:02","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T02:35:02","slug":"creation-of-a-sand-mandala-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=37675","title":{"rendered":"Creation of a Sand Mandala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 19, 2014 &#8211; February 23, 2014<br \/>\nAsia Society<br \/>\n725 Park Avenue, New York, NY<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Creation-of-a-Sand-Mandala.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[37675]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37668\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Creation-of-a-Sand-Mandala.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Monks from the Drigung school of Buddhism will construct a sand-mandala over the course of 5 days in conjunction with the opening of the Golden Visions of Densatil: A Tibetan Buddhist Monastery exhibition. The mandala sand painting is a sacred cosmogram representing the world in perfect harmony, and may be employed for focusing attention, as a spiritual teaching tool, for establishing a sacred space, and as an aid to meditation.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the event, please visit:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/asiasociety.org\/new-york\/events\/creation-sand-mandala\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/asiasociety.org\/new-york\/events\/creation-sand-mandala<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 19, 2014 &#8211; February 23, 2014 Asia Society 725 Park Avenue, New York, NY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37684,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37675\/revisions\/37684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}