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.

There are works of art at the Crow Museum of Asian Art on the University of Texas at Dallas campus that date back centuries. The piece that's being created in the museum lobby this week is not meant ...

Buddhist monks from Tibet visited San Luis Obispo County this week to create a colorful — and temporary — sand mandala.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tibetan Monks Friday started to create a sand mandala painting as part of the opening of the Frist Center for the Visual Arts 'Secrets of Buddhist Art: Tibet, Japan, and Korea' exhibit. Several ...

PHILADELPHIA -- A Tibetan Buddhist mandala master is keeping a centuries-old art and spiritual practice alive. His most recent mandala is a prayer for peace and an end to gun violence in the City of ...

OSHKOSH - The Paine Art Center and Gardens, 1410 Algoma Blvd., hosted Buddhist monks this week to educate the public about Buddhism, Tibetan culture and more. The monks created a sand mandala with a ...

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 ...