Houston, Texas, July 17, 2015 — Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will construct a mandala sand painting and perform special ceremonies August 20-23 in Asia Society Texas Center’s ...

Tibetan monks at Musikfest to make mandalas, meditate and chant for world peace Updated: Jul. 29, 2012, 12:00 p.m. | Published: Jul. 29, 2012, 11:00 a.m.

A group of Tibetan Buddhist monks is visiting San Luis Obispo this week as part of a three-week tour featuring the creation of traditional sand mandalas, cultural events and public ceremonies.

From there, the monks will work on the mandala until 7 p.m. The monks will continue their work Wednesday and Thursday from noon to 7 p.m. and Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., she said.

Community members got the chance to witness sacred art in motion this weekend as Tibetan monks began crafting an impressive sand mandala in Atascadero. The opening ceremony of the Creation of the ...

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.

View more photos on Flickr. HOUSTON, August 19, 2019 — For the fifth consecutive year, Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery in southern India returned to Asia Society Texas Center to ...

Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Drepung Gomang Monastery in India lead a procession to Demens Landing in St. Petersburg in 2018 to pour the sand from their mandala into the water during a ceremony.

Eight monks from India started working on the World Peace Mandala at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Muhammad Ali Center in downtown Louisville.

One of the richest visual objects in Tibetan Buddhism is the mandala. A mandala is a symbolic picture of the universe. It can be a painting on a wall or scroll, created in coloured sands on a ...

Losang Samten hunches over a table scratching two metal funnels together, called a chakpo, shaping grains of sand into intricate pictorial designs. This week, the Tibetan artist is creating a mandala ...