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Article: TIBETAN BUDDHIST MONKS TO CONSTRUCT MANDALA SAND PAINTING IN CENTER FOR THE ARTS

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August 30, 2006
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The University at Buffalo issued the following press release:

Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will construct a Mandala Sand Painting Sept. 16-19 in the UB Art Gallery in the Center for the Arts on the University at Buffalo's North (Amherst) Campus.

From all the artistic traditions of Tantric Buddhism, that of painting with colored sand ranks as one of the most unique and exquisite. Millions of grains of sand are painstakingly laid into place on a flat platform over a period of days or weeks to form the image of a mandala. To date the monks have created mandala sand paintings in more than 100 museums, art centers, and colleges and universities in the United States and ...

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