Daniel Sangjib Min Sep 22, 2023 Sep 22, 2023 0 On a hot and sunny weekend, there was a surreal scene happening inside The American Theatre in Hampton. With quiet ceremonial music in the background, ...

On the bottom floor of the UofA Bookstore a Buddhist monk has been hunched over a table for hours creating a sacred symbol of compassion – using only sand. Losang Samten became a Buddhist monk at the ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. (KOIN) — A Buddhist sand painting, also known as a sand mandala, is being constructed — and then deconstructed — this week in the library at Clark College in Vancouver. It is a ...

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 ...

Living so close to many of California’s most famous beaches, residents of Los Angeles get a lot of one-on-one face time with sand. However, when it comes to the white, grainy stuff, the true experts ...

Throughout the past week, people who popped into the Neighborhood Congregational Church in Laguna Beach witnessed a ritual that was equal parts artistic and spiritual. Those who dropped by saw the ...

Enveloped in the studious silence of Clark College’s library, Tibetan Buddhist monk Nawang Shakga used delicate metal tools to create a small circle of fine, orange sand. The circle is just the first ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) – A Buddhist sand mandala is being created this week by monks visiting Louisville as a symbol of compassion and a gift to the community. Tibetan Buddhist monks from India are ...

Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will construct a mandala sand painting and perform special ceremonies August 16-19 at Asia Society Texas Center. During this ritual, millions of ...

Sign up for the Hello, Houston! daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox. Six Tibetan monks in maroon and orange robes are ...

BATESVILLE, Ark. (Edited News Release/KAIT) -Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will construct a mandala sand painting March 6-10 in the rotunda of the Lyon Business and Economics ...