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.

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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.

This article examines the mandala - a symbolic picture of the universe. One of the richest visual objects in Tibetan Buddhism is the mandala. A mandala is a symbolic picture of the universe. It can be ...

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 ...

SOUTH BEND — Four monks in crimson robes sit cross-legged in a circle, their heads bent intently over a square board. They carefully — grain by grain — drop colored sand on the square to craft ...

Shortly before Seattle welcomes the Dalai Lama, Everett will honor Tibetan culture in its own way next week. From Tuesday to Friday, Buddhist monks plan to build a sand mandala in the lobby of the ...

Photoshop tutorial showing how to create an ornate mandala using only letters of a name. Mandalas are designs that represent ...

The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. Regina Reverend Uttam Barma and Abbot Khenpo Jampa Sopa look on as two monks create a ...