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 ...

Houston, Texas—Asia Society Texas Center is pleased to welcome back to Houston the Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery. From August 10-13, the monks will construct a sand mandala ...

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

Dorjee said. “This sand mandala is almost like a blueprint. When you see the blueprint, you can have image of the house.” The mandala is embedded with Tibetan Buddhist cosmology. The monks ...

Now they are created throughout the world, including New York City. A special sand mandala painting is a gift to New York City from the Tibetan Buddhist monks of Drepung Loseling Monastery as a tolken ...

SAND MANDALAS. THE INTRICATE DESIGNS REPRESENT THE CYCLE OF CREATION AND DESTRUCTION, WHICH IS A CORNERSTONE OF BUDDHISM. THE INTENTION FOR CREATING THIS COMPASSION MANDALA IS TO PRAY FOR WORLD ...

“His work complements and helps contextualise the historical material that forms the majority of the exhibition. The piece, like all of Rigdol’s work, approaches Buddhism in multipronged ways and ...

The Sacred Arts of Tibet Tour of Gaden Shartse Norling Monastery hosted by Placerville Friends of Tibet at Federated Church ...

The Drepung Gomang Center for Engaging Compassion hosted the Sacred Arts Tour. It’s a group of Buddhist monks who go around communities and create sand mandalas, which are intricate designs that are ...

Tibetan monks from the Drepung Gomang Monastery have returned to Bowling Green as part of their Sacred Arts Tour. One of the styles of art that these monks are best known for is sand mandala ...