Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will construct a mandala sand painting May 6 through 10 in the Copernicus Room of the New Castle Public Library.

No matter what we do, no matter how we try, life changes—and that was the theme of the dismantling of the sand mandala, by ...

John Tsantes / Sackler Gallery, SI A central element of the Tibetan sand-painting ritual is to disperse the sand into flowing water.This act is an additional expression of sharing the mandala’s ...

A group of monks from the Drepung Gomang monastery are spending the week at Stockton University’s main campus as part of a ...

Tibetan painting scholars David ... meaningful in the creation of tantric mandalas, the circular representations of the universe done in paint or sand: Perhaps surprisingly, many of the minerals ...

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 ...