Today downtown in the governmental center of all places I found this. Naturally, I took a picture.
Tibetan Buddhist Monks from the Drepung Gomang Monastery in Southern India, over the course of four days meticulously create a Medicine Buddha Mandala by painstakingly laying millions of grains of loose, colored sand. “Mandala” is a Sanskrit word meaning circle or “world in harmony.” The sand mandala is carefully constructed to generate compassion and to create a social/cosmic healing of the environment. At the center of the multi-colored sand design is the lotus flower which symbolizes compassion. During the traditional sand mandala closing ceremony, the sand is swept into an urn and then dispersed in the nearby water. The destruction of the mandala is meant to serve as an allegory of the impermanence of all phenomena, as something of great beauty is destroyed to show that nothing lasts forever.
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