In the TV show House of Cards, there is a scene in which a group of monks work on a giant piece of work in the White House every single day for a month, painstakingly funnelling different colours of ...

On the bottom floor of the UofA Bookstore a Buddhist monk has been hunched over a table for hours creating a sacred symbol of compassion – using only sand. Losang Samten became a Buddhist monk at the ...

Like a warm hug on a rainy day, the mandala artworks of Agatha Brenica are filled with tenderness. There’s hope, joy and peace in every little or big dot that forms part of the whole image on the ...

Patricia Lappin is a local mandala artist living in Westminster. When she was a child, she loved spirographs and kaleidoscopes, both because they focus on geometry and are a form of art. “I was always ...

All art begins with a dot and when the dots are connected the line appears. It is the artist who makes the line his own and embarks on a personal creative journey. Bindu, also known as dapsa or ...

Mandala isn’t simply an art form, it is touted as a representative of the entire universe by Buddhists and Hindus. It means a ‘circle’ or ‘completion’ in Sanskrit, and has always been used as an ...

Childhood interest in drawing and painting led Mahira Shah to the world of 'mandala' art and today she holds the world record for making the smallest mandala shikara. Mandala is an ancient Indian art ...

Mandala artists are rare in West Africa. How did you stumble on this art form and what has the journey been like for you? Before I knew my great-grandfather was an artist-a tezhip and Arabic-English ...

getting down low knees to the ground, paintbrushes stroking a colorful mandala on Mariposa street in san juan Batista. I'm super into the arts and I really like painting and drawing and I think this ...