Sentences with phrase «sand mandalas»

Especially popular are mandalas, used by ancient cultures such as Tibetan monks who create sand mandalas as a form of meditation.

This two - week program will feature the construction of a Tibetan sand mandala by a team of traditionally trained Lamas visiting Los Angeles from the Thubten Choeling Monastery in Pharping, Nepal.

For centuries, Tibetan Buddhist monks have carried on the tradition of creating and destroying elaborate sand mandalas representing the universe in order to demonstrate the ephemeral nature of reality.

Monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery will create a 5 - foot sand mandala at the Blanton Museum of Art from January 9 - 13, 2013.

Over the course of three weeks, visiting monks from the Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist Studies in Ithaca, New York will construct a Tibetan Buddhist sand mandala amidst the paintings of artist Eddie Martinez.

The artist is inspired by the colorful sand mandalas made by Tibetan monks that demonstrate the interconnectedness and impermanence of life.

The Hammer Museum is pleased to welcome the return of four highly respected Tibetan Buddhist monks — Venerable Gelong Kalsang Rinpoche, Venerable Lama Nawang Thogmed, Lama Nawang Samten Lhundrup, and Lama Dorji Sherpa — to create an elaborate sand mandala in the Lobby Gallery.

This will be the fourth visit of the Venerable Losang Samten, renowned Tibetan scholar and sand mandala artist.

The impermanence of materials and composition is present in many of Muniz's images, but the issue is brought into sharp focus by his use here of coloured powders, calling to mind Buddhist sand mandalas.

For centuries, Tibetan Buddhist monks have carried on the tradition of creating and destroying elaborate sand mandalas r...

You associated it with the ritual of the Tibetan sand mandala, in that as soon as the mandala painting is made, it begins to be dissembled.

The Miraculous in the Everyday follows upon a four day ceremony at the University Museum of Contemporary Art (November 14 - 17) where Tibetan Buddhist monks created a sand mandala painting from inception to completion and final dispersal into the Connecticut River, symbolizing the «world in harmony» (Sanskrit word for mandala) and the impermanence of all earthly things.

The grand opening celebration of the largest expansion project in the history of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts will be Saturday and Sunday, May 1 and 2, with an array of free special events and activities, including a ribbon cutting, Tibetan Monks creating a sand mandala, exhibitions, lectures, artist demonstrations, music, dance demonstrations, refreshments, highlights tours and family art activities.

Tibetan Monks will create a sand mandala at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts during grand opening weekend May 1 - 2.

Like the sand mandalas made by Tibetan Buddhists, Tumor Storm is temporary, and the intricate installation will be swept away at the end of its showing — a somber reminder of life's transience.

Bringing to mind the sand mandalas painstakingly sprinkled by Tibetan monks, Yamamoto's creations, which take hundreds of hours to pour, are also ritually destroyed at the end of their creation and viewing.

Sand is an versatile material in art, seen in work such as intricately coloured Tibetan Buddhist sand mandalas.