Buddhist monks from Tibet visited San Luis Obispo County this week to create a colorful — and temporary — sand mandala.

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 ...

As part of a religious studies expansion, the UA has brought three Buddhist monks to campus where they are currently creating a mandala from only colored sand, to wash it away Thursday after five days ...

HOUSTON, TX--(Marketwired - Aug 13, 2015) - In a scene reminiscent of season three in "House of Cards," Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will construct a mandala sand painting ...

Butte Valley >> For four days, former Buddhist monk Losang Samten has labored over a platform in the Butte College library, using a small tool to create a vibrant work of art with sand. Hundreds of ...

Photoshop tutorial showing how to create an ornate mandala using only letters of a name. Mandalas are designs that represent the cosmos or universe from the human perspective. They are often used in ...

Being a monk with a mandala might seem challenging to a non-monk. After days of painstaking work, placing colored grains in an intricate geometric pattern on a large mat, the sand painting is ...

SOUTH BEND — Four monks in crimson robes sit cross-legged in a circle, their heads bent intently over a square board. They carefully — grain by grain — drop colored sand on the square to craft ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) — Tibetan Buddhist monks took millions of grains of sand and constructed a mandala at a South Florida university. Monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery started building the ...