On June 30, 2019, the Lion’s Roar Dharma Center community came together to initiate the outer temple wall where a mural will be brought to life. The effort is being led by Lindsay Parkinson, who described Phase I as, “Bringing community together, giving love & spontaneity to the wall and acknowledging “Samsara” pain & suffering in the world. By expressing ourselves with creativity and joy we are facing these negative constructs with the opposite and inviting positive energy and solutions in it’s place.”

When participants arrived, they found the wall as prepared by Lindsay:

After a couple of hours and a variety of paints, brushes, and individual approaches, the wall was transformed into:

See Phase II: Placeholders here