Tibetan monks create an exquisite sand mandala - the Yamantaka mandala. Throwing the sand from the mandala to the ocean.
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Buddhism | Leo Golan | 
December 25, 2008 11:22 am | 
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Day 11 of creation of the Yamantaka sand Mandala - dissolution ceremony.
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Buddhism | Leo Golan | 10:22 am | Comments (6)
Yamantaka sand Mandala: preparations to the dissolution ceremony.
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Buddhism | Leo Golan | 9:50 am | Comments (4)
The Supreme head of Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, His Holiness 17th Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje will be visitng Hong Kong in early February 2009.
The sand mandala of Yamantaka, complete after eleven days of careful construction. This afternoon it will be ritually transformed, destroyed, to represent the impermanence of all things and to demonstrate the importance of non-attachment, central to the tenets of Buddhism.
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Buddhism | Leo Golan | December 24, 2008 6:02 pm | Comments (5)
