What is a mandala? Sanskrit, for ''circle,'' a mandala is an image of a palace containing Buddhist iconography that is visualized during meditation or constructed with colored sand, usually by several ...

Each color in a Tibetan sand mandala holds significant meaning. For example, white symbolizes purity, blue represents ...

As part of a religious studies expansion, the UA has brought three Buddhist monks to campus where they are currently creating a mandala from only colored sand, to wash it away Thursday after five days ...

Like any great artwork, the Tibetan Buddhist sand mandala is crafted with patience, precision and care. What makes the mandala unique, however, is how quickly it’s destroyed after being completed.

Butte Valley >> For four days, former Buddhist monk Losang Samten has labored over a platform in the Butte College library, using a small tool to create a vibrant work of art with sand. Hundreds of ...

Being a monk with a mandala might seem challenging to a non-monk. After days of painstaking work, placing colored grains in an intricate geometric pattern on a large mat, the sand painting is ...

Tibetan Buddhist Monks are visiting the Central Coast from the Ngari Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in India. On Tuesday, the Monks began creating an ornate Blue Medicine Buddha Sand Mandala at the ...

HOUSTON, TX--(Marketwired - Aug 13, 2015) - In a scene reminiscent of season three in "House of Cards," Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will construct a mandala sand painting ...

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MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) — Tibetan Buddhist monks took millions of grains of sand and constructed a mandala at a South Florida university. Monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery started building the ...