"When we're making the mandala, our intention is for blessing, you know," Buddhist monk Geshe ... at the Crow Museum of Asian Art at UT Dallas in Richardson. Sand from the dismantled mandala ...

It’s a group of Buddhist monks who go around communities and create sand mandalas, which are intricate designs that are brushed away once they’re completed. It represents the cycle of creation ...

Mandala sand painting is considered one of the most unique and exquisite artistic traditions of Tantric Buddhism. Called dul-tson-kyil-khor ... to make a contribution to world peace and healing ...

If the Buddhist art is meant to guide us to enlightenment, it just as often reveals the blood, beauty, and mystery of earthly life.

Sand mandalas are gorgeous works of art. Even more, they are physical manifestations of the Buddhist belief that material life is transitory. Probably the greatest living practitioner of sand ...

A special sand mandala painting is a gift to New York City from the Tibetan ... followers spread the message of Enlightenment after his death, the presence of Buddhist art is often the earliest proof ...

Nirvana Day is an annual Buddhist ... Mandalas are used by Buddhists to help them meditate. A mandala represents a symbolic depiction of the universe. They can be made using coloured sand or ...