PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Lama Losang Samten's work is a call for healing and peace, which can be seen through the spiritual art he's creating. "It's called the sand mandala," said Lama Losang Samten.

The mandala was on display Sept. 5-8. On Sept. 8, there was a dissolution and procession where the sand was poured into the Iowa River. Thousands of grains of colorful sand are poured into the Iowa ...

A new exhibition of Buddhist art titled "Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet," is on display during a press preview event at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on September 16, ...

Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Gaden Shartse Monastery visited Carlsbad, California to construct a sacred sand mandala, a ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- 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 ...

One of the most beautiful aspects of Buddhist art is how intertwined an image is with its philosophical meaning, giving us a deeper understanding of the world around us. Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Buddhist sand mandala at Tauranga Art Gallery has been completed after hours of work. Buddhist monks have finished making a colourful sand mandala at Tauranga Art Gallery. But the work of art is ...