 (File photo) Monks returned to Kanab on July 19, 2008 to conduct a special Puja (prayer ceremony) at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary. The Puja will feature music and chanting and will include special prayers for the welfare of animals.
Tibetan Monks Perform at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary
Press Release, Best Friends Animal Society
AUGUST 19, 2008 The Mystical Arts of Tibet tours, featuring the famed multiphonic singers of Drepung Loseling Monastery, have attracted enormous audiences in North America. The tours are endorsed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama as a means of promoting world peace and healing through sacred performing art.
The Monks returned to Kanab on July 19, 2008 to conduct a special Puja (prayer ceremony) at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary. The Puja will feature music and chanting and will include special prayers for the welfare of animals.
The event was at "Angels Landing" (natural amphitheatre, 2 miles off Hwy. 89 on Kanab Canyon Rd. - just past the barn).
Ancient societies throughout the world have conceived that ritual performances of sacred chants help to establish communication with the higher power of good. These rituals, called pujas are performed to promote healing on environmental, social and personal levels. Tibetan Pujas are conducted to bring about health, healing and purification. The ceremony features instrumental music and the unique, beautiful multiphonic chanting of the Monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery.
About Best Friends Animal Society:
Founded in 1984, Best Friends Animal Society advances nationwide initiatives that promote community involvement to make the world a better place through kindness to animals. Best Friends also promotes adoption, low-cost spay-neuter services, and humane education programs through its work with animal shelters and rescue groups around the country. Best Friends, which is is one of America's foremost animal rescue organizations, operates the country's largest sanctuary for abused and abandoned animals. On any given day, Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, located in southwestern Utah, is home to approximately 2,000 dogs, cats, horses, rabbits, birds, and other animals. The society publishes Best Friends magazine, the nation's largest general interest, pet-related magazine with approximately 300,000 subscribers. For more information, visit www.bestfriends.org.
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