According to Buddhist teaching, giving is an act that can transform and purify the mind.

On Tuesday at the ALANA Cultural Center, approximately 30 members of the Colgate community took part in a 2,500-year-old Sri Lankan Buddhist ceremony of alms giving called a Dana.

The remaining tickets for the much-anticipated lecture by the Dalai Lama at Colgate University were snatched up by the general public in just three hours Saturday.

The free tickets were available via the Colgate Bookstore's website starting at 12:01 a.m. Saturday.

Students and faculty will not be the only ones working in the Case Library and Geyer Center for Information Technology next week.  

Two Tibetan monks from Namgyal Monastery in Ithaca, N.Y., will be creating a sand mandala in the reading room on the library's third floor. (See this webcam to watch them work).