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Drepung Gomang Monastery in Nashua, NH

Drepung Gomang Monastery visit to Nashua, NH. The built a Mandala over the course of the week.

 

From their website:

The Mandala, a Tibetan sand painting, is an ancient art form of Tibetan Buddhism. The mandala is a Sanskrit word meaning cosmogram or “world in harmony.” Mandalas are drawings in three-dimensional forms of sand. In Tibetan, this art is called dul-tson-kyil-khor which means “mandala of colored powders.”

 

The Mandala they built was The Medicine Buddha is the Buddha of Healing.

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Uploaded on October 19, 2005
Taken on October 14, 2005