The Tashi Lhunpo Monks return to Quay Arts next month with their popular sell-out show, celebrating their 50th anniversary!
Performances will take place on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd July.
Insight into the mystical world of Tibet
The show offers an insight into the mystical world of Tibet, featuring traditional Tibetan musical instruments, the sound of sacred mantras, and elaborate, colourful costumes.
The performance is accompanied by an explanation of the significance and stories behind the dances and prayers and provides a fascinating glimpse into an ancient cultural tradition far removed from modern Western society.
Interactive workshops
Alongside the performances, the monks offer interactive workshops inviting participants to learn more about the costumes, performance, and music of a Tibetan monastery or to try their hands at some of the Tibetan arts of butter sculpture, prayer flag printing or sand mandala making.
The Tantric tradition of meditation is exemplified by the construction of intricate sand mandalas.
Tashi Lhunpo Monastery
For nearly five hundred years since Tashi Lhunpo Monastery was founded in Tibet by the First Dalai Lama the unique Buddhist tradition of prayers, Tantric rituals, music, and dance has been offered by monks, inaccessible to all but the most fortunate.
Fifty years ago, forced from their homeland by the Chinese occupation of Tibet, the monastery was re-established in India, where this great tradition continues in exile.
Marking fiftieth anniversary
Eight Tibetan monks are now able to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the rebuilding of their monastery in India and share this dazzling spiritual culture with audiences in the west in THE POWER OF COMPASSION, a programme of masked dance, music and Tantric ritual.
Creation and destruction of sand mandala
The monks will also be working on a sand mandala in the Seminar Room over the weekend starting Friday afternoon and finishing Sunday with a destruction ceremony.
The Seminar Room will be open and anyone is welcome to come and see the Monks in action as they make this beautiful sand mandala!
Where and when
The Tashi Lhunpo Monks return to Quay Arts on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd July 2023.
Tickets for the performance are priced at £16 in advance or £18 on the door.
Tickets for the workshop are priced at £12 in advance or £14 on the door.
Book in person at Quay Arts, or via their Website.
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