STONE RIDGE, N.Y. — Buddhist Monk Lama Tenzin Yignyen will create the Avalokiteshvara, the Mandala of Compassion, during a week of residence at High Meadow School from March 13-17. Yignyen will create ...
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.
TEN. FOR PHOTOS, SEVERAL BUDDHIST MONKS ARE CELEBRATING THE YEAR COMING TO AN END WITH A SPECIAL TRADITION. YESTERDAY, THE SACRED ARTS TOUR VISITED THE DREPUNG GOMANG CENTER FOR ENGAGING COMPASSION TO ...
There are works of art at the Crow Museum of Asian Art on the University of Texas at Dallas campus that date back centuries. The piece that's being created in the museum lobby this week is not meant ...
BATESVILLE, Ark. (Edited News Release/KAIT) -Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will construct a mandala sand painting March 6-10 in the rotunda of the Lyon Business and Economics ...
Enveloped in the studious silence of Clark College’s library, Tibetan Buddhist monk Nawang Shakga used delicate metal tools to create a small circle of fine, orange sand. The circle is just the first ...
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 ...
CROOKSTON, Minn. — An event at the University of Minnesota Crookston this week serves as a reminder that nothing lasts forever. On Tuesday, April 11, Wongdue Sangbo Gurung, a Buddhist monk from Nepal, ...
Tibetan Buddhist monks visited San Luis Obispo this week to create a colorful sand mandala. Visiting from the Ngari Institute of Buddhist Dialects in India, the monks started building the mandala at ...
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 ...
The creation and destruction of a sand mandala will bring an ancient Tibetan Buddhist tradition to the University of Minnesota-Crookston in April. Wongdue Sangbo Gurung, a Buddhist monk from Nepal, ...