Buddhist monks from Tibet visited San Luis Obispo County this week to create a colorful — and temporary — sand mandala. The monks traveled all the way from Ladakh, India, to the Healing Tree wellness ...

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 ...

In addition to the mandala, the monks are hosting discussions, slide shows, pujas — chants and prayers — and lectures during their tour, which is sponsored by the Fields Center and Community House.

Have you ever wondered what a day in the life of a monk is like? A Tibetan Buddhist monk? Ever curious about the meaning in those huge sand paintings with their swirls and symbols? Have you ever ...

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 ...

Being a monk with a mandala might seem challenging to a non-monk. After days of painstaking work, placing colored grains in an intricate geometric pattern on a large mat, the sand painting is ...

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) - Tibetan monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery are taking over the commons area of Chippewa Valley Technical College’s Business Education Center this week. Today and tomorrow ...

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 ...

Monks say a prayer on the Kansas River before dispersing the sand mandala over the river on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024.