We look at photographs of our family to reminisce and bring comfort. We enjoy photographs of friends for laughs or look at images of others in an unfortunate predicament to remind us that our own ...

The word mandala means, "a Hindu or Buddhist graphic symbol of the universe" ("Mandala." Merriam-Webster.com. Merriam-Webster, n.d. Web. 15 Jan. 2018.). This symbol is often used to represent ...

Editor’s Note: Sandra Makielski, seventh grade social studies teacher at Davisville Middle School in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, shares an international collaborative project that helps students ...

When visiting a stretch of Pacific coastline, there's a ritual that I often partake in. Sourcing whatever materials are available on the beach—seaweed, shells, rocks, feathers—I create the form of a ...

Mandalas are Buddhist devotional images often deemed a diagram or symbol of an ideal universe. Mandalas come in many forms. Often they are painted on scrolls and taken with travelers over long ...

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TEN. FOR PHOTOS, SEVERAL BUDDHIST MONKS ARE CELEBRATING THE YEAR COMING TO AN END WITH A SPECIAL TRADITION. YESTERDAY, THE SACRED ARTS TOUR VISITED THE DREPUNG GOMANG CENTER FOR ENGAGING COMPASSION TO ...

There was more flaying than I expected, though not necessarily more than I wanted, at “Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet.” Any visitors going to the Met’s exhibition in search of ...

Leeann Lidz has enjoyed creating artwork for more than 50 years. Three years ago, she delved deeply into another artistic endeavor: making mandalas. “Mandala speaks the language of the universe and ...

Imagine spending more than 30 hours painstakingly detailing an elaborate piece of art, finally perfecting the work, then destroying it merely hours later. That is what a group of seven Tibetan ...