{"id":12858,"date":"2011-07-11T15:37:19","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T12:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=12858"},"modified":"2011-07-11T15:37:19","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T12:37:19","slug":"prince-william-kate-learn-about-mandalas-in-los-angeles-12858","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/prince-william-kate-learn-about-mandalas-in-los-angeles-12858\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William &#038; Kate learn about Mandalas in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12859\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12859\" style=\"width: 269px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12859\" title=\"kate_prince_will_mandalas-la-nationalturk-0567\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/kate_prince_will_mandalas-la-nationalturk-0567-269x360.jpg\" alt=\"Prince William &amp; Kate learn about Mandalas in Los Angeles\" width=\"269\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/kate_prince_will_mandalas-la-nationalturk-0567-269x360.jpg 269w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/kate_prince_will_mandalas-la-nationalturk-0567-164x220.jpg 164w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/kate_prince_will_mandalas-la-nationalturk-0567.jpg 349w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12859\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prince William &amp; Kate learn about Mandalas in Los Angeles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Young British royals, The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge William and Catherine, reportedly learned about mandalas at Inner-City Arts in Los Angeles, USA.<\/h1>\n<p>\u201cMandala\u201d, which means \u201ccircle\u201d in Sanskrit, is a sacred symbolic pictorial representation of the universe originating in India. Appearing in Rig-Veda, the oldest existing scripture of the mankind, mandala has also been described in Tantras and Agamas. It has ritual and spiritual significance in both Hindu and Buddhist traditions.<\/p>\n<h2>Kate Middleton and Prince William learn Mandalas<\/h2>\n<p>As the royals sat at easels donning art smocks, an artistic director explained about mandalas and students around told them how to paint their own mandalas, reports suggest.<\/p>\n<p>Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that mandala represented cosmos and aided in visualization and manifesting the deity\/deities.<\/p>\n<p>Rajan Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, urged the royal couple to explore the rich philosophical thought offered by Hinduism, oldest religion of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Inner-City Arts claims to provide elementary, middle and high school students; many living in Los Angeles&#8217; poorest neighborhoods; with the tools and skills they need to succeed academically and personally. Cynthia S. Harnisch is CEO, while Doug Hinchliffe is Board Chairman.<\/p>\n<p>Hinduism, third largest religion of the world, has about one billion adherents and moksh (liberation) is its ultimate goal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Prince William Kate, Hinduism, Rajan Zed, Mandala,\u00a0Prince William, Kate Middleton, Prince William, the royals, Kate Middleton Los Angeles<\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young British royals, The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge William and Catherine, reportedly learned about mandalas at Inner-City Arts in Los Angeles, USA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,30,80,74,63,17,118,14],"tags":[16223,15251,16406,16404,3667,16403,16049,16405],"class_list":["post-12858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-culture","category-daily","category-europe","category-hot","category-world","tag-hinduism","tag-kate-middleton","tag-kate-middleton-los-angeles","tag-mandala","tag-prince-william","tag-prince-william-kate","tag-rajan-zed","tag-the-royals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}