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Tibetan monks create colorful sand mandala in SLO. Here’s how to see it before it’s gone
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 ...
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Lost Treasures of Tibet
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 ...
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In defence of wasting time
Anna Moloney, in repose, defends idleness against the cult of self-betterment In Tibetan Buddhism, there is a long and important ritual of making pieces of sand art called mandalas, in which monks ...