Tibetan Buddhist Monks Create Artistic Symbol Of Enlightenment - Here Today, Gone On Sunday

November 4, 2010

Author: Janette Williams

Source: The Pasadena Star-News

http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/news/ci_16526391#ixzz14Qq67vDa

For five days, five Tibetan Buddhist monks will hunch over a table, holding their breath as they place grains of brilliantly dyed river sand to create a sacred mandala.

 

At 1 p.m. Sunday at the Pacific Asia Museum, 46 N. Los Robles Ave., they will put the last hand-ground grain in the mandala's intricate pattern symbolizing compassion, enlightenment and the world in its divine form.