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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Lama Losang Samten's work is a call for healing and peace, which can be seen through the spiritual art he's creating. "It's called the sand mandala," said Lama Losang Samten.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Four Buddhist monks from the Gyudmed Tantric Monastery in Karnataka are creating an intricate, 4/4 metre sand mandala, before ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will construct a mandala sand painting at the Ulster Performing Arts Center from Monday, Oct. 27, at noon to Friday, Oct. 31, at ...