Lion's Roar Foundation
2nd Annual Shambhala Sun Foundation Auction
As we bear down on the close of a very successful Shambhala Sun Foundation 2008 Online Auction we want to take one last chance to highlight the following:
Got a group but nowhere to go? Take yourselves to the Drescher Family's Windhorse Farm in beautiful Nova Scotia. Pick a season. Pick a house. Tucked into the midst of this ecologically sustainable retreat center you'll have the canvas you need to create the group experience you want.
Dzigar Kongtrul's "Untitled #221" warrants a closer look as well. Keep clicking until you get to the fully enlarged view. For those who dabble in subtlety you'll be surprised at the way vivid reds and blues peek out from under and around the great sweeps of surface colour.
And if you click through to the Namse Bangdzo Kuan Yin statue, continuing to click until you get a full-screen view, you'll begin to get a sense of the full richness and subdued lustre of her surface. It is completely magnetizing. Whether for home or shrine your space will benefit from her presence.
And don't forget the fresh photographic eye of Paul Grand , the cheeky humour of David Sipress' "Been there, done that" and "This is everything...", or Karen Zilly's etherial painting "Buddha: Time".
Cure money madness? Sound like something worth doing? Spencer Sherman brings his considerable experience to bear in helping others get at the root causes and solutions for the "money monster" within. THIS would be money well spent.
(The beautiful Michael Welch "Lily" displayed above was one of the first items to go.)
Remember: December 14, 2008 is it. The last day of the 2008 event. There will be no further messages so if there's a particular item you'd like to be reminded about before auction close, put a "watch" on it. The auction will notify you the moment there's been any activity.
The Shambhala Sun, North America's most widely read Buddhist-based magazine, and Buddhadharma: the Practitioner's Quarterly, an in-depth journal of Buddhist teachings, are published by the Shambhala Sun Foundation-an independent, charitable non-profit operating in the United States and Canada. Independent status allows us to demonstrate a deep commitment to presenting the perspectives of all Buddhist traditions. It also enables us to pursue more diverse ways of raising the funds we need to carry out our mission. This auction is one of those ways.
The items you see in these pages and the money that comes from their sale will assist the Foundation with its continuing move to the use of environmentally friendly paper in the printing of its magazines. It's a big job and this is a modest start but "modest" is how great things begin.