Tibetan Monks Make Sand Mandala at Mariposa Museum

The Mariposa Museum in Peterborough NH is hosting a group of eight Tibetan monks from the Drepang Gomang Monastery (http://gomang.org/) to make a sand mandala. Denise was there when the mandala was started with a blessing ceremony on Friday, September 25 and it will be completed on Wednesday. After a ceremony, it will then be poured into the Contoocook River. The painting is made with colorful minerals that are specially gathered, blessed and ground for the purpose, using traditional brass funnels and scrapers that distribute the sand accurately. While as many as four monks may be working on this mandala at a given time, only one was present when this was filmed. On this day, the monk was adding details to the second circle of the mandala, which will eventually fill the entire blue surface. This mandala is a Compassion Mandala. The last mandala made at the Mariposa was a Healing Mandala.

The background music is chanting freely licensed under a Creative Commons ShareAlike license from http://www.archive.org/details/HeartSutra01PrajnaParamitaDagriRinpocheTibetan...

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