With each careful tap of a specialized metal cone, sand master Geshe Legden Gompo expertly places the sand onto the design of the mandala. Mandala means that which extracts the essence. It’s a ...

KAREN HUMPHRIES SALLICK (Tibetan Buddhist Practitioner): The mandala is a teaching and meditation tool so that we can focus on evoking in ourselves the Buddha nature that we Buddhists believe you have ...

Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery in southern India will construct a mandala sand painting and perform special ceremonies August 14–18 at Asia Society Texas Center. During this ...

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 ...

Monks at Musikfest will set the tone for a peaceful yet energetic festival this year. The Tibetan monks of the Drepung Loseling Monastery will perform for several days, starting with a mandala sand ...

Venerable Lama Losang Samten works on sand mandala with Santa Barbara Middle School students. (Santa Barbara Middle School) Santa Barbara Middle School (SBMS) is hosting Venerable Lama Losang Samten ...

Sand dribbled noiselessly Monday from fine-pointed funnels onto a blacktopped table on which was drawn a circle of intricate patterns could not be heard. And ever-so-slowly, the brilliantly colored ...

Khedtrup Gyatso works on a sand mandala. (Xinhua/Jigme Dorje) BEIJING, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- It takes weeks -- or even months -- to lay millions of sand grains to create sacred patterns. Then they will ...

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (KUTV) — Three Tibetan monks are creating a "compassion" sand mandala over the course of four days at the George S. & Delores Dore Eccles Gallery in the Salt Lake Community ...

WEST HARTFORD — Over the course of this week, visiting Tibetan monks have spent more than 20 hours creating a work that monk Geshe Tsewang calls an “antidote to attachment.” Mindfulness and meditation ...

If you go to Larkspur Landing to marvel at the Tibetan Green Tara sand mandala, just don't get too attached to it. The Tibetan monks from Gyudmed Tantric Monastery, who will spend 10 days creating the ...