Each color in a Tibetan sand mandala holds significant meaning. For example, white symbolizes purity, blue represents ...

With each careful tap of a specialized metal cone, sand master Geshe Legden Gompo expertly places the sand onto the design of the mandala. Mandala means that which extracts the essence. It’s a ...

Imagine spending more than 30 hours painstakingly detailing an elaborate piece of art, finally perfecting the work, then destroying it merely hours later. That is what a group of seven Tibetan ...

Buddhist monks from Tibet visited San Luis Obispo County this week to create a colorful — and temporary — sand mandala. The monks traveled all the way from Ladakh, India, to the Healing Tree wellness ...

Creating a mandala is as painstaking as it is beautiful. Grain by grain, two Tibetan monks meticulously placed colored sand during the last two weeks on the campus of UC Irvine, forming a brightly ...

Religion: World's biggest sand mandala on display in Gansu A sand man dala is on display in Dunhuang, Gansu province, on Wednesday. It took 16 Tibetan monks half a year to finish the mandala, which is ...