Multimedia Buddhist Art Gallery - The gallery contains a collection of images and informative descriptions of Buddhist art. Sculptures of Avalokiteshvara and Mahakala are pictured along with a painting of the bhavachakra (the wheel of existence). Several mandalas are shown along with an explanation of the role of mandala in Buddhist meditation practice. The audio portion of the gallery contains downloadable files of Tibetan Buddhist chanting.
Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” - Plato was both a writer and a teacher. His writings are in the form of dialogues, with Socrates as the principal speaker. In the “Allegory of the Cave,” Plato describes symbolically the predicament in which mankind finds itself, that the world revealed by our senses is not the real world but only a poor copy of it, and proposes a way of salvation, that the real world can only be apprehended intellectually by directing student’s minds toward what is real and important and allowing them to apprehend it for themselves.