The 2001 North American Buddhist Music Festival presents "Sounds of the Ganges River" and "Praying for a Pure Land of Harmony on Earth" at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, 300 E. Green St., Pasadena.
The festival is part of Fo Guang Shan and the Buddha's Light International Assn.'s world tour of the Buddhist Monastic Choir.
The festival will feature 80 monks and nuns from the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Monastic Choir and the Taipei Municipal Chinese Classical Orchestra.
Master Hsing Yun, founder of the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Order, has focused his attention on Buddhist cultural and educational activities that help promote the importance of music and its ability to bridge cultural gaps for more than 30 years. The 60-piece Taipei Municipal Chinese Classical Orchestra, founded in 1979, plays a leading role in the preservation, study and development of Chinese music.
The groups will perform a variety of Chinese Buddhist music using traditional and classical instruments.
Ticket prices are $20 to $100. Proceeds will be donated to the Red Cross to aid families of the victims of the attacks in New York City. Information: (626) 961-9697, ext. 187-188 or http://www.hsilai.org.
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Dr. Jack Rogers, moderator of the 213th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), will be guest preacher at Pasadena Presbyterian Church at 10 a.m. Sunday. Rogers, a Pasadena resident who holds the highest national elective office in the denomination, will also lead a forum on the state of the church from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the church sanctuary.
* The Westside Jewish Community Center presents "Middle Eastern Culture Encounters Western Traditions: Jerusalem, Israel and Dodge City, U.S.A.," a photo exhibit by Jo Carroll, from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday at 5870 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles. The event will include a discussion and reception with the photographer. Admission is free. (323) 938-2531, ext. 2225.
* "Earth-centered spirituality: Now more than ever" will be the topic presented by radio correspondent Margot Adler from 9 to 11 a.m. Sunday at the Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church, 301 N. Orange Grove Blvd., Pasadena. Adler is a correspondent from New York who has been covering the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. (626) 449-3470.
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