Tibetan Buddhist Monks to Construct Large-Scale Symbolic Sand Painting at the Blanton Museum of Art

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Tibetan Buddhist Monks at the Blanton Museum of Art (photo courtesy of the Drepung Loseling Monastery)

TEXAS---The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin has invited monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery to create a 5-foot sand mandala within the museum’s Rapoport Atrium. Hosted in conjunction with Into the Sacred City, an exhibition of Tibetan artworks currently on view from the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, The Sand Mandala Project will run January 9-13, 2013. The public is invited to view the active creation of the piece and its associated sacred ceremonies. [link]