#buddhist monks

2100. Sand Mandala. Day 3 of the making of an exquisite sand mandala for Asia Society’s upcoming exhibit, Golden Visions of Densatil: A Tibetan Buddhist Monastery exhibition.

“The mandala sand painting is a sacred cosmogram representing the world in perfect harmony, and may be employed for focusing attention, as a spiritual teaching tool, for establishing a sacred space, and as an aid to meditation. To create the mandala, the monks will draw a formal pattern on the base, using traditional iconography that includes intricate geometric shapes and a multitude of ancient spiritual symbols. The monks then place millions of grains of brightly colored sand to form the mandala, which represents the world in its divine form.”

This picture has the weirdest set of tags because I drew it as a sort of Terminator fanart and I used a photo of a temple in Chiang Mai as a reference.

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