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The popular Gyuto Monks of Tibet will return to the Incinerator Arts Centre in Moonee Ponds from Friday 18 July to Sunday 27 July. This will be the Monks third visit to the Incinerator and their first since 2006 when they drew huge crowds to their concerts and daily programs.
The annual visits to Australia by the Gyuto Monks have become a valued and intrinsic part of our cultural experience. Their popularity continues to grow across all ages and socio economic demographics with the Melbourne public seemingly entranced by these ambassadors of Tibetan culture.
Each year a different group of Monks from the Gyuto Tantric University at New Ramoche Monastery in Dharamsala, India is selected to tour Australia to spread their unique teaching of peace and love without judgment while also enriching our cultural landscape with the passing on and demonstration of their sacred and ancient arts rituals.
The Monks will share the wisdom of their teaching and meditation techniques, engage in quiet concentration on the mandala, perform their world renowned chanting and enchant audiences with their genuine pleasure in demonstrating some of their most traditional arts practices.
Led by Gen Lama, who followed the Dalai Lama into exile in 1959, all six monks on the tour this year were born and raised in Tibet but are now resident at the Gyuto Tantric University. The younger monks have all travelled the same route since - all trained at Gyuto Ramoche Temple in Lhasa before fleeing to refuge in India. Gen Lama is very happy to be returning to Australia following his previous visits with the Dalai Lama.
To commence the residency at the Incinerator, the Monks will hold a special Puja for peace on the first evening, Friday 18 July at 7.00 pm. The daily program will then run from 10am to 4pm with evening talks and concerts.
Gyuto Monks Of Tibet
When: Friday 18th - Sunday 27th July
Where: Incinerator Arts Complex, 180 Holmes Road, Moonee Ponds
Event: Daily program - full program available on www.mvcc.vic.gov.au/incinerator
Time: 10am – 4pm
Tickets: Free
Gyuto Monks Concert
Date: Thursday 24th & Friday 25th July
Time: 8pm
Tickets: $20 full $15 concession
Two concert package $35 full and $25 concession
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Thursday, 08 January 2009
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