Tibetan monks from the historic Gaden Shartse Monastery are touring the USA to showcase their culture and demonstrate their practices of meditation and paths to inner peace and compassion.
They also demonstrate how they construct a sacred mandala from colored sand, and they raise funds to build more dormitory space for their monastery.
I watched them work on Thursday, after they had been working for four days. Yesterday, to uphold the principle that all phenomena are transient, the monks were going to sweep up the mandala and place the sand in a nearby lake to purify the surrounding environment.
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These Tibetan Mandalas are amazing. Several years ago we watched a group of monks create one in a Minneapolis art museum.
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