Tibetan Buddhist Monk Sand Mandala

Ongoing at the Visual Arts Center in Panama City, FL for the next 5 days.
The creation of the sand mandala is a multi day process, it will take at least 4-5 days to complete (I think they have more or less complicated mandalas depending on the number of days they have). They use long funnels to apply the sand to the pattern, you can see them in the foreground here. They scoop up the multicolor sand and then tap it slowly out onto the pattern. This is about all I know about the techniques used, you can see some completed ones in the Sand Mandala Group and I will be posting the day to day process on Flickr too!
Once they are done, they wipe the mandala away, and disperse the sand on the wind.

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items are from between 16 Jan 2006 & 20 Jan 2006.