HOUSTON, August 21, 2015 — Asia Society Texas Center received nearly 3,300 visitors to welcome and watch Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery in India create an Akshobhya (the ...

They are spending the week constructing a mandala on the grounds of the Sawdust Art Festival, 935 Laguna Canyon Road. For seven hours a day through Sunday, the monks will be kneeling on the floor ...

BATESVILLE, Ark. (Edited News Release/KAIT) -Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will construct a mandala sand painting March 6-10 in the rotunda of the Lyon Business and Economics ...

What is a mandala? Sanskrit, for ''circle,'' a mandala is an image of a palace containing Buddhist iconography that is visualized during meditation or constructed with colored sand, usually by several ...

Houston, Texas, May 25, 2016—Asia Society Texas Center is pleased to welcome back to Houston the Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery. From August 18-21, the monks will construct a ...

NEW ORLEANS — The soul-penetrating chants of Tibetan monks reverberated through Hall G of the Ernest Morial Convention Center on Tuesday in preparation for the sand mandala being created in honor of ...

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A mandala is much more than just a page in a coloring book; mandalas are geometric symbols with a great deal of meaning and symbolism. The word mandala comes from a Sanskrit word that loosely ...

A former Mechanicsville restaurant is now a place for East Tennessee Buddhists to meet. To mark its opening, the Lotus Light Contemplative Community Center will host an Aug. 22-26 Festival of Sacred ...

Khedtrup Gyatso works on a sand mandala. (Xinhua/Jigme Dorje) BEIJING, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- It takes weeks -- or even months -- to lay millions of sand grains to create sacred patterns. Then they will ...