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 ...

Longtime Islamorada resident Karin Wolfe is preparing to welcome some very special guests. At the end of this month, Wolfe ...

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 ...

Asia Society presents a special one-time event of mandala sand painting by the Tibetan monks of Drepung Loseling Monastery, South India. Over a ten-day period at Asia Society and Museum, the monks ...

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

They were produced in Tibet, India, Nepal, China, Japan, Bhutan, and Indonesia and date from the 4th century to present. Now they are created throughout the world, including New York City. A special ...

In Tibetan Buddhism, there are various forms of mandalas, which are very intricate images and diagrams representing an idealised universe. One form is sand mandalas which are done using sand of ...

A Tibetan Buddhist monk ... Peace Tour during which at each of their stops they create massive colored-sand mandalas, conduct workshops promoting understanding and peace, and host a fair-trade ...