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

A monk gets ready to start working on the sand mandala at the Lawrence Arts Center on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024. With metal funnels, colored sand and extremely steady hands, eight Buddhist monks are ...

(WBIR - KNOXVILLE) Tibetan monks visiting Knoxville completed a traditional piece of sand art after four days of teamwork. Five monks created a sand mandala at the McClung Museum of Natural History ...

It took the Tibetan monks about 30 hours of painstaking work to complete the sand painting that was on display Friday on the main floor of the North Dakota Museum of Art at UND. Nearly the entire time ...

Tibetan Buddhist monks visited San Luis Obispo this week to create a colorful sand mandala. Visiting from the Ngari Institute of Buddhist Dialects in India, the monks started building the mandala at ...

(WBIR - KNOXVILLE) The culture and tradition of Tibetan monks has survived thousands of years. Now those traditions have traveled from the peaks of the Himalayas to the McClung Museum at the ...

There are works of art at the Crow Museum of Asian Art on the University of Texas at Dallas campus that date back centuries. The piece that's being created in the museum lobby this week is not meant ...

People seeking peace and serenity during busy, stressful or frantic times did not have to go far this week to find it. A blanket of calm enshrouds The Copernicus Room at the New Castle Public Library ...

Have you ever watched the creation of a mandala “painting?” It’s a sacred art practiced by Tibetan monks, consisting of tiny grains of colored, powdery sand, carefully placed on a large waist-high ...

They started creating it Jan. 8 and on Jan. 14, the monks will sweep up the mandala and carry the sand to the water. Maggie is a former arts writer for the Tampa Bay Times. She now writes for Bay ...

Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will construct a mandala sand painting Sept. 16 through 19 in the UB Art Gallery in the Center for the Arts, North Campus. Of all the artistic ...