Butte Valley >> For four days, former Buddhist monk Losang Samten has labored over a platform in the Butte College library, using a small tool to create a vibrant work of art with sand. Hundreds of ...

Buddhist monks from Tibet visited San Luis Obispo County this week to create a colorful — and temporary — sand mandala.

TEN. FOR PHOTOS, SEVERAL BUDDHIST MONKS ARE CELEBRATING THE YEAR COMING TO AN END WITH A SPECIAL TRADITION. YESTERDAY, THE SACRED ARTS TOUR VISITED THE DREPUNG GOMANG CENTER FOR ENGAGING COMPASSION TO ...

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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 ...

STONE RIDGE, N.Y. — Buddhist Monk Lama Tenzin Yignyen will create the Avalokiteshvara, the Mandala of Compassion, during a week of residence at High Meadow School from March 13-17. Yignyen will create ...

Like any great artwork, the Tibetan Buddhist sand mandala is crafted with patience, precision and care. What makes the mandala unique, however, is how quickly it’s destroyed after being completed.

The mandala was on display Sept. 5-8. On Sept. 8, there was a dissolution and procession where the sand was poured into the Iowa River. Thousands of grains of colorful sand are poured into the Iowa ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Tibetan Buddhist Monks from a monastery in India have completed their gift to the city of Louisville. The symbolic sand mandala, which is being housed at the Drepung Gomang ...

ELON, North Carolina — There's something special about this sand. Geshe Sangpo is a Tibetan Buddhist Monk. He visited Elon University this week to share something beautiful and powerful with the ...