Kalachakra Wheel of Time Sand Mandala
Creation of Kalachakra Sand Mandala by the Venerable Losang Samten in the University of Arizona Bookstore.
Creation of Kalachakra Sand Mandala by the Venerable Losang Samten in the University of Arizona Bookstore.
The monks laboriously created the sand mandala by memory over about 5 days, and then ritually destroyed it. Doing this illustrates everything’s impermanence.
Tibetan monks create an exquisite sand mandala - the Yamantaka mandala. Throwing the sand from the mandala to the ocean.
Day 11 of creation of the Yamantaka sand Mandala - dissolution ceremony.
Yamantaka sand Mandala: preparations to the dissolution ceremony.