Tibetan Buddhist monks will create a healing sand mandala at Florida CraftArt in St. Petersburg. Here's the week's lineup of ...

If the Buddhist art is meant to guide us to enlightenment, it just as often reveals the blood, beauty, and mystery of earthly ...

Shortly after its completion the monks will dismantle the mandala to symbolize the impermanence of all ... The gesso was polished to create a perfectly smooth surface. Establishment of a design by ...

Then the place is blessed to make it conducive for creating the mandala sand painting. Once that ceremony is concluded, the monks begin the mandala by drawing the basic outline, which could take a ...

The monks will be at the Bob Kirby Branch of ... practice and an active prayer process where they draw the sand mandala, creating it with different colored sand grain-by-grain,” Erskine said.