Sacred Tibetan Sand Mandala Time Lapse

From all the artistic traditions of Tantric Buddhism, that of painting with colored sand ranks as one of the most unique and exquisite. Millions of grains of sand are painstakingly laid into place on a flat platform over a period of days or weeks to form the image of a mandala. To date, the Drepung Loseling monks have created mandala sand paintings in more than 100 museums, art centers, and colleges and universities in the United States and Europe.

The presentation was presented by Associated Students Productions in cooperation with the Multicultural Center and is made possible by the generous support of the Instructionally Related Activities fund.

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[Vincenzo Schifano]

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[futurnovelist556]

I think it's really interesting to watch how each of them fill in the design with sand. They each have their own style.

[The1113thDoctor]

If you'd like to practice impermanence try a Buddha Board out. You paint on it with water that slowly fades over time allowing you to enjoy the present and to remind you of impermanence.

[maytherebepeace1]

The creation is so beautiful that I wanted to find a way to buy something similar, that I can afford, to remind me of impermanence. But of no avail, it was no where to be found,. This is impermanence in action. Creation and then destruction. Amazing. To live with this principle of life definitely does change ones daily experience and appreciation of every moment.

[keith russell]

the mind is like this Mandala as you take years to study/believe your path in life but it is destroyed in seconds by one clean sweep

[lev0n3241968]

On the surface, it may seem that it's destroyed, but not the case. The ritual involves a sequence of collecting the sand and releasing it back to the earth. It demonstrates evanescence as part of the succession of life or time. Personally, I'm not half as good as these monks, but the craft has helped me to become more patient.