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    Tibetan Butter Sculpture Demonstration and Workshop

    Tibetan Butter Sculpture Demonstration and Workshop

    Presented by Thubten Shedrup Ling (TSL) and Gaden Shartse Monastery at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center

    July 17, 2010

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    The monks from Gaden Shartse Monastery will work with children and adults to create traditional sculptures made from butter, as has been done in Tibet for over 800 years. Due to both its plenitude and highly elastic qualities,Tibetans have found butter to be very conducive to sculpture. The butter has been shaped into Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, flowers, animals, and auspicious symbols. In Tibet, especially during Monlam (the Great Prayer Festival), butter sculpture contests were held among the major monasteries, and were often over 12 feet high! This workshop will begin with a demonstration by the monks and will be followed by the opportunity for each participant to make his/her own butter sculpture.


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        Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center

        30 West Dale Street
        Colorado Springs, CO 80903

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        $12 suggested donation, however, no one is ever turned away due to lack of funding.

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        July 17, 2010

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        11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

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