Sand Mandala

This amazing Sand Mandala was made in the course of one week at the Asian Art Museum, by the Monks from the Dzindu Monastery of Tibet. The sacred sand mandala is a mystic diagram of the universe used as an aid to meditation of the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara. The mandala will be destroyed in a ritual on Sunday, July 10 at 2:00 pm.

Which is amazing really, they meditate and create this fine piece with sand and they destroy it at the end of its creation, reaffirming detachment (from their hours of work) and impermanence of everything.

To see the different stages of the sand mandala taking shape and the concentration needed is awesome.