In a high-ceilinged gallery early Sunday afternoon, dozens of people crowded behind rope cordoning off a table, craning their heads as a monk in deep crimson robes cleared away bowls of brightly ...

Living so close to many of California’s most famous beaches, residents of Los Angeles get a lot of one-on-one face time with sand. However, when it comes to the white, grainy stuff, the true experts ...

CARBONDALE ” Crystal River Elementary School students know him as the guy who keeps their classrooms clean and soap dispensers full. But Mitchell Silas has a colorful story to tell ” not with words, ...

The seven monks lined up in a row behind their mandala sand painting, a complex display of colors and shapes formed by millions of individual sand grains. Clad in maroon and gold robes, they let out a ...

After the monks of the Namgyal Monastery finish their weeklong sacred sand painting called The Buddha of Compassion Mandala, they will dismantle their work and disperse the dyed sand into Port Gardner ...

BATESVILLE, Ark. (Edited News Release/KAIT) -Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will construct a mandala sand painting March 6-10 in the rotunda of the Lyon Business and Economics ...