you know," Buddhist monk Geshe Tsewang Punchok said. Punchok is one of four monks creating a mandala by 'painting' with sand. They use funnel tools called chak-pur, scraping the side to cause ...

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 ...

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

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

Where does the sand mandala tradition originate? Can you explain the creation of the mandala as a practice within your tradition? The Buddhist sand mandala originated with Tantric Buddhism going back ...

Mandalas were created in the service of one of the world's great religions, Buddhism. They were produced in Tibet, India, Nepal, China, Japan, Bhutan, and Indonesia and date from the 4th century to ...

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 ...