About the Image(s)

While I was teaching at a local college, we were visited by a group on Tibetan monks. During their visit they created a sand mandala. My submission for this month is an image of one of our visitors involved in the creation of such a mandala. Once complete, the sand mandala's ritualistic dismantling is accompanied by ceremonies and viewing to symbolize Buddhist doctrinal belief in the transitory nature of material life. Following the dismantling process there was the ceremonial procession to a local creek where the sands where released back into nature to “disperse the healing energies of the mandala.”
I have also included an overview of the mandala, close to completion. In addition, I have included an image of the procession to disperse the sands.