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"Ripley S. A. is a Chilean department store, financial services, and shopping malls management company. Ripley is headquartered in Santiago, Chile and also has operations in Peru, Argentina and Colombia. Ripley has 52 stores, with 39 in Chile and 13 in Peru. In the financial sector it operates a bank under the Banco Ripley brand and manages credit lines through its Tarjeta Ripley cards. The company manages six shopping malls, three in Chile and four in Peru. Ripley's main competitors are Paris, Falabella and Hites all operating similar shopping and lending ventures in the Chilean market. ReferencesExternal links * Banco Ripley * Banco Ripley Peru * Ripley Chile Category:Financial services companies of Chile Category:Companies based in Santiago Category:Financial services companies established in 1956 Category:Retail companies established in 1956 Category:Real estate companies established in 1956 Category:1956 establishments in Chile Category:Retail companies of Chile Category:Shopping malls in Chile Category:Chilean brands "
"Celestine Ann Knowles (née Beyonce; born January 4, 1954) is an American businesswoman and fashion designer known for her House of Deréon and Miss Tina by Tina Knowles fashion brands. She is the mother of singers Beyoncé Knowles and Solange Knowles, and, until 2011, was married to their father Mathew Knowles, the manager of Destiny's Child. Personal life Celestine Ann Beyonce was born in Galveston, Texas, in 1954, the last of seven siblings. She is of Louisiana Creole of color (French, Native American, and African), ancestry. Her family roots are from Boutte, Louisiana. She is a descendant of Acadian leader Joseph Broussard. While in high school, Knowles was a part of a singing group called the Veltones, inspired by The Supremes. She married Mathew Knowles in 1980. Filing for divorce in 2009, she dropped the matter in 2010, then refiled in August 2011, stating "discord or conflict of personalities" which prevented them from "reasonable expectation of reconciliation" as the reason. The divorce was finalized in November 2011. Knowles has four grandchildren; granddaughters Blue Ivy and Rumi Carter and grandsons Daniel Julez J. Smith, Jr. and Sir Carter. She started dating actor Richard Lawson in the summer of 2013. The couple got married on April 12, 2015. Through this marriage, Knowles became stepmother to Lawson's daughter, actress Bianca Lawson. Career Tina Knowles and her daughter Beyoncé Knowles-Carter pictured during the opening of the Beyoncé Cosmetology Center in Brooklyn in March 2010 Tina Knowles started her career at 19 when she relocated to California to work as a makeup artist for Shiseido. However, she returned home when her parents fell ill. Knowles worked as a dance choreographer for UAB in Birmingham, Alabama before working as a beautician until 1990 when she opened the salon Headliners, located in Houston. The salon went on to become one of the most famous hair businesses in Houston. Tina's rise to prominence came as costume designer for Destiny's Child. In the early days of her daughter's career, when money was limited, she created outfits that the members wore on-stage and to events. In 2002, she published a book titled Destiny's Style: Bootylicious Fashion, Beauty and Lifestyle Secrets From Destiny's Child in which she discussed how fashion affected Destiny's Child's success. The book was published through the company HarperCollins. In 2004, Tina Knowles launched the clothing line House of Deréon alongside Beyoncé, naming it after her mother Agnes Deréon. On November 22, 2010, Knowles appeared with Beyoncé on The View to promote her clothing line called "Miss Tina by Tina Knowles". In 2010, she expanded the line to Walmart after it was previously being sold on the Home Shopping Network. Discussing her style of designing for the line, Knowles revealed she aimed to "hide flaws and create a slimming silhouette", adding, "Everything is created like a foundation garment, even the dresses. The pieces are designed to make the woman look leaner and taller." In 2010, Tina Knowles again collaborated with Beyoncé to open the Beyoncé Cosmetology Center at the Phoenix House in Brooklyn. In July 2020, Knowles made a cameo in Beyonce's Disney + film Black Is King. Before the film's release, she revealed she had let her daughter borrow art pieces for the project. See also *House of Deréon ReferencesBibliography * Category:1954 births Category:Living people Category:American fashion designers Category:American businesspeople in retailing Category:American company founders Category:American cosmetics businesspeople Category:American costume designers Category:Women costume designers Category:American fashion businesspeople Category:American manufacturing businesspeople Category:American people of Acadian descent Category:American women in business Category:Businesspeople from Texas Category:Destiny's Child Category:Louisiana Creole people Category:Women company founders "
"Matho Gonpa near Leh in Ladakh, the only representative of the Sakyapa sect of Tibetan Buddhism in Ladakh. Matho Monastery, or Matho Gonpa or Mangtro Monastery or Mangtro Gonpa, from the Tibetan "mang" that means "many" and "tro" that means "happiness", is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery located 26 kilometres southeast of Leh in Ladakh, northern India, on the banks of the Indus River. The village of Matho is located at the mouth of a deep gorge running out of the Zanskar Range and across the Indus. It is directly opposite Thikse Monastery. Matho and Skidmang in the eastern Ladakh (130km to the east of Leh) are the only example in Ladakh of the Sakyapa sect of Tibetan Buddhism. Because Matho does not lie on the main highway from Leh, it sees fewer visitors than Hemis, Thiske or Shey. However, it is known to outsiders for its annual Oracle Matho Nagrang Festival, held on the 14th and 15th days of the first month of the Tibetan calendar. During this festival, two oracles, known as "Rongtsan", are said to inhabit for a few hours the body of two monks. The purpose of these oracles is to attempt to predict the fortunes of the local village communities for the coming year. Two monk that are to be the oracles vehicles are chosen every three years by the monks of the monastery for a duration of 3 years. The first year the monks will have to meditate for 9 months before the festival. The following two years the meditation will last 2 months. When the two monk come out from the retreat, all the monks will gather together to form a circle. The names of the two monks will be placed in a bowl. The bowl is then sealed and passed from one monk to the next until one name comes out from the bowl - this monk is chosen by the monastery's protector to perform the oracle. Matho is also home to a collection of thangkas dating back to the 14th century. History Founded in 1410 by Lama Dugpa Dorje, it belongs to the Sakya Order. It is noted for its six-hundred- year-old thangkas and its Matho Nagrang Festival. The gompa is the only one in Ladakh belonging to the Sakyapa and is said to be one of the few which is seeing an increase of monks in recent years.Rizvi (1996), p. 237. Description Most of the buildings are, apparently, rather dilapidated but there is a new assembly hall or du-khang which was built in 2005 and which has very colourful paintings and a Sakyamuni Buddha as main statue. There is a small chapel on the top story containing images of Sakya Pandita and other Sakya lamas. There is a 'museum' adjoining it with a number of very beautiful old thangkas, some of which are thought to have been brought from Tibet in the first half of the 15th century when the monastery was founded. Unfortunately, many of them are very worn. The masks and robes worn by the lamas in the annual dance festival may also be seen in the museum.Rizvi (1996), pp. 237-238. The festival of the oracles The annual festival of the two Rongtsan oracles takes place around the Buddhist new year, usually in the first half of March. Two monk are chosen every three years to get ready as the potential receptacles. They purify themselves with months of fasting and meditation to make themselves suitable receptacles for receiving the oracles spirits. When possessed they are said to be able to perform many astounding feats such as cutting themselves with knives and walking around the ramparts of the top storey blindfolded with no fear of falling down the precipice below. While in this trance state they answer questions about the prospects for Matho and Ladakh for the coming year as well as personal questions put to them by individuals. However, if skeptical questions are put to the oracle to test him, he is said to react "with a frenzied display of anger."Rizvi (1996), p. 238. References * Rizvi, Janet. 1996. Ladakh: Crossroads of High Asia. Second Edition. Oxford India Paperbacks. 3rd Impression 2001. . * Buddhist Monasteries. Matho. Category:Buddhist monasteries in Ladakh Category:Sakya monasteries and temples "