Word: esotericism
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On Saturday night, Sanders Theatre featured a wonderful juxtaposition of the musical old and new. At 8:05 p.m., the theatre was filled, not with students, but with smiling and relaxed adults who came of age in the late 1970s. There was quite a bit of grey hair, a few...
On Saturday night in Sanders Theatre, the soloist sang harmony—with himself. For just a few hours, the Harvard crest was covered by thungkas, or Tibetan wall hangings, as the audience welcomed monks from the esoteric and venerable Tibetan Tantric Choir.
The Gyuto monks, who went into exile with the Dalai Lama in 1959 upon China’s annexation of Tibet, currently reside in India. Although their numbers have dwindled from the standard 900 who had originally resided in Tibet’s capital city, Lhasa, the comparatively large group...
The monks’ attire was noteworthy for its many changes during the performance: A variety of shawls were put on and taken off, and the crested yellow hats of the special Galug-pa sect were donned, then doffed with the changing of the chants. These transitions were an expression...
“The first sentence will always feel like rusty water. It will always be a shitty feeling.” Peter A. Rader ’82 shared his unique approach to screenwriting with current Harvard students last Saturday during the six-hour workshop event ?...