you know," Buddhist monk Geshe Tsewang Punchok said. Punchok is one of four monks creating a mandala by 'painting' with sand. They use funnel tools called chak-pur, scraping the side to cause ...

Several Buddhist monks are creating compassion sand mandalas at the Drepung Gomang Center for Engaging Compassion in Louisville as part of the Sacred Arts Tour. The intricate designs symbolize the ...

Where does the sand mandala tradition originate? Can you explain the creation of the mandala as a practice within your tradition? The Buddhist sand mandala originated with Tantric Buddhism going back ...

Buddhist monks started creating an intricate Sand Mandala today. They will work on it until Friday.. when they will then destroy it by throwing it into the Lehigh River. The idea is to teach the ...

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Longtime Islamorada resident Karin Wolfe is preparing to welcome some very special guests. At the end of this month, Wolfe ...

If the Buddhist art is meant to guide us to enlightenment, it just as often reveals the blood, beauty, and mystery of earthly life.

Mandalas were created in the service of one of the world's great religions, Buddhism. They were produced in Tibet, India, Nepal, China, Japan, Bhutan, and Indonesia and date from the 4th century to ...

Sand mandalas are gorgeous works of art. Even more, they are physical manifestations of the Buddhist belief that material life is transitory. Probably the greatest living practitioner of sand ...

In Tibetan Buddhism, there are various forms of mandalas, which are very intricate images and diagrams representing an idealised universe. One form is sand mandalas which are done using sand of ...

Nirvana Day is an annual Buddhist festival ... to help them meditate. A mandala represents a symbolic depiction of the universe. They can be made using coloured sand or can be a painting on ...