No matter what we do, no matter how we try, life changes—and that was the theme of the dismantling of the sand mandala, by ...

A group of monks from the Drepung Gomang monastery are spending the week at Stockton University’s main campus as part of a ...

A group of Tibetan monks from Drepung Gomang Monastery will be at Stockton University for a week starting Monday to build a ...

Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will construct a mandala sand painting May 6 through 10 in the Copernicus Room of the New Castle Public Library.

John Tsantes / Sackler Gallery, SI After the 9/11 attacks, 20 Tibetan Buddhist monks came to the Smithsonian to help America heal. By making a sand mandala. For days they created colorful lines ...

Tibet is a good place ... After their morning prayer, the monks began working on a sand painting or "mandala," a visual representation of the palettes of a deity; in this case, the Buddha of ...

In religious art, the mandala is used to symbolize wholeness—the circle of eternity. This is a simplified version of a Tibetan Chenrezig mandala, which represents great compassion. This is only ...