Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
The completed sand mandala is ruined and swept up by the monksKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks created a sand mandala at Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks form the outline of their sand mandala, to be created this week at the Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Colored sand will fill the sand mandala with both hue and texture.KTRK
Drepung Loseling monks form the outline of their sand mandala, to be created this week at the Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks form the outline of their sand mandala, to be created this week at the Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks form the outline of their sand mandala, to be created this week at the Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks form the outline of their sand mandala, to be created this week at the Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Colored sand will fill the sand mandala with both hue and texture.KTRK
The Closing Ceremony of the sand mandala will be held Sunday, August 21, at 10am.KTRK
Colored sand will fill the sand mandala with both hue and texture.KTRK
Drepung Loseling monks perform ancient temple music and dance intended to kindle world healingKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks perform ancient temple music and dance intended to kindle world healingKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks perform ancient temple music and dance intended to kindle world healingKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks perform ancient temple music and dance intended to kindle world healingKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks perform ancient temple music and dance intended to kindle world healingKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks perform ancient temple music and dance intended to kindle world healingKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks perform ancient temple music and dance intended to kindle world healingKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks sketch the outline of their sand mandala, to be created this week at the Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks sketch the outline of their sand mandala, to be created this week at the Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks sketch the outline of their sand mandala, to be created this week at the Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks perform ancient temple music and dance intended to kindle world healingKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks perform ancient temple music and dance intended to kindle world healingKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks perform ancient temple music and dance intended to kindle world healingKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks perform ancient temple music and dance intended to kindle world healingKTRK
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Drepung Loseling monks perform ancient temple music and dance intended to kindle world healingKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks perform ancient temple music and dance intended to kindle world healingKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks perform ancient temple music and dance intended to kindle world healingKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks perform ancient temple music and dance intended to kindle world healingKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks perform ancient temple music and dance intended to kindle world healingKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks perform ancient temple music and dance intended to kindle world healingKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks perform ancient temple music and dance intended to kindle world healingKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks perform ancient temple music and dance intended to kindle world healingKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks form the outline of their sand mandala, to be created this week at the Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
Drepung Loseling monks form the outline of their sand mandala, to be created this week at the Asia Society Texas CenterKTRK
The monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery in Atlanta, Georgia, will work for four days through Sunday to complete the artwork. You can see the monks work on the mandalas up close throughout the weekend for free.
Sand mandalas are a Tibetan Buddhist tradition involving the creation and destruction of mandalas made from colored sand.
The completion of the artwork will be on Sunday with a closing ceremony in which the artwork was destroyed by the monks to "enact the impermanent nature of existence by sweeping up the colored grains and dispersing them in flowing water," according to the monks.
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