Tibetan Buddhist monks visited San Luis Obispo this week to create a colorful sand mandala. Visiting from the ... “This is not a normal art,” he said. “This is one of the spiritual arts.” ...

In religious art, the mandala is used to symbolize wholeness—the circle of eternity. This is a simplified version of a Tibetan Chenrezig mandala, which represents great compassion. This is only ...

Anna Moloney, in repose, defends idleness against the cult of self-betterment In Tibetan Buddhism, there is a long and important ritual of making pieces of sand art called mandalas, in which monks ...