Bryant, B.

PersonType	Category:Authors of English Works
FirstName / namefirst	Barry
LastName / namelast	Bryant
MainNamePhon	Barry Bryant
SortName	Bryant, Barry
bio	Mr. Bryant was a painter and musician strongly influenced by Tibetan Buddhism. In 1973 he founded the Samaya Foundation in Manhattan, a nonprofit organization dedicated to spreading Tibetan culture in the United States. (Samaya is the Sanskrit word for vow or commitment.) In the spring of 1988, the foundation brought Tibetan monks to New York City from the Namgyal monastery in India to create the Wheel of Time sand mandala at the American Museum of Natural History. The mandala -- a large, colorful, circular meditational image of intricate design -- was made entirely of sand painstakingly poured from small funnels. It took over two weeks to complete; it was then ritually destroyed, its contents carried in procession to the banks of the Hudson and scattered on the water. The mandala was recreated in other cities in the United States and Europe thereafter. In 1993, Mr. Bryant published a book, The Wheel of Time Sand Mandala: Visual Scripture of Tibetan Buddhism, to which the Dalai Lama contributed a foreword. (Source Accessed Mar 22, 2023)
YearDeath	1997
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Barry Bryant