Thousands lights and sand art for world peace

A huge sand art is on display at the Penang Che Hoon Khor Moral Uplifting Society in Jalan Macalister. Quoted by The Star Online:

Hong Kong celebrity Eric Tsang and a Tibetan monk gave a helping hand to create the world’s largest sand art in Penang.

Titled The World Peace Sand Art of Eight Auspicious Signs, the work of art would use eight tonnes of sand in six colours.

The sand art,measuring 16m by 24m and almost the size of five badminton courts,depicts the auspicious signs as the parasol,fish,vase,conch,victory banner,glorious knot,lotus and wheel.

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the Guinness Book of Records would verify the record at 5.45pm today.

“At 6pm, the launching of the Lamp Lighting Blessing ceremony will take place,” she said, adding that the sand art would be dismantled after 11pm and the holy sand distributed to the crowd.

I dropped by just now and am glad to take a look at this event. Throngs of Buddhists are in the hall chanting and praying with some Tibetan monks for world peace while others are outside lighting the lamps.

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Thousands of these lamps are lighted. There are rows and rows of them, each representing some wishes like family harmony, world peace, unity, deceased ancestors and etc. It is indeed a sight to behold, with thousands of flickering light.

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The sand-art is actually tonnes of different coloured sands used to decorate some Buddhist symbols. (Please read the article from Star for more information).

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If you look closely, you can see the word ‘World Peace’ on the top of the sand-art.

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Computer generated lights cast different colours on the sand-art.

Malaysia is a multi-religion country with several main religious groups like Muslim, Christian, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhsm and others. We have religious freedom and have religious celebrations all year round. Some of these celebrations are major tourist attractions too.

Posted by on June 6th, 2005 under Festivals & Religious

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  1. lilian Says:
    June 6th, 2005 at 9:33 pm

    Oh wow, after I posted this, I only read the news. It looks like the sand-art is there for just a few hours. That is from 6pm till 11pm tonite. (I took the photo and blog it at 9.30pm.) Lucky me to have captured this memorable event. As usual, my curiosity and a camera on hand had taken me to lots of places! Anyway, my children were so amazed to see so many lights at one time.

  2. boo_licious Says:
    June 7th, 2005 at 9:23 am

    aiks, why so short a time? Great pixs, I love the lights one. I wonder if my camera can take that?

  3. Papi Says:
    June 7th, 2005 at 3:12 pm

    u didn’t catch Eric Tsang?? :)

  4. lilian Says:
    June 8th, 2005 at 2:03 am

    Papi – Eric Tsang mm leng zhai, so not interested la. Maybe if Gallen Loh or Simon Yam come, ok lah.

    Boo-licious – They distributed the sands for the devotees. The sands are blessed by the monks. I think they scared of rain, habis all the sands flow away.

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