“This is one of the valuable lessons of the Buddha teaching,” said Tenpa ... when the monks will draw six lines in the mandala, and then sweep it up with brushes. All of the sand is collected ...

(Edited News Release/KAIT) -Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung ... The lamas begin the exhibit by drawing an outline of the mandala on the wooden platform. On the following days they lay the ...

Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art takes us into cosmology of Vajrayana Buddhism, a form of Buddhism that originated in India in the 12th and 13th ...

Tibetan monks from the Drepung Loseling Insitute, a Buddhist institution of learning in Atlanta, create a spiritual sand ...

"When we're making the mandala, our intention is for blessing, you know," Buddhist monk Geshe Tsewang Punchok said. Punchok is one of four monks creating a mandala by 'painting' with sand.

Thousands of grains of colorful sand are poured into the Iowa River as a symbolic gesture. The sand comes from a Buddhist sand mandala, and the river spreads the compassion of the mandala into the ...

The reason for their visit is threefold, Dorje says: to bring a mandala and maintain relationships with those in the Pikes Peak region, to share their Tibetan Buddhist teachings, as well as love ...

PHILADELPHIA -- A Tibetan Buddhist mandala master is keeping a centuries-old art and spiritual practice alive. His most recent mandala is a prayer for peace and an end to gun violence in the City ...