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The Tibetan Mandala construction is not just about creating an image but also a kind of meditative performance, where the public can look for hours at the monks, who with slow movements and restless intricately shaped the original model which goes back hundreds of years, making manifest the exalted qualities of Buddhist philosophy: discipline, diligence and patience palpable in the very act of painting.
Monks pigmented sand distributed through instruments called Chakpurs conical metal with which they form a painting structured around a design of concentric circles, and ornate designs that represent different elements alluding to Buddhist philosophy. This process is carried out over several consecutive days.
The process of painting is hard to watch. In Western art usually occurs in private in the artist's studio; but in the case of sand mandalas is given great emphasis, both the creation process and the outcome-and the monks demonstrate their ability to maintain their concentration in the middle of a public space.
When the process completes, the Tibetan Mandala sand remains exposed for a limited time (usually no more than a couple of hours) as the mandala dissolves right after it ended. This well-done-that Tibetan sand mandalas are an ephemeral art and impermanent: After seven days of meticulous preparation, pigmented sand is collected and discharged into the river. "
Tibetan Sand Mandalas have been considered recently as artistic heritage and cultural development of humanity and beyond their context within Tibetan Buddhism, are exhibited in museums and schools around the world.
Namgyal Monastery monks have painted mandalas at Brown University, New York, Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA, Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina in Italy, Finland, Switzerland and many places.
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From the sig. link can be an excellent presentation made by Ms. Mandalas. Lina Dorado
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