Mandalas are Buddhist devotional images often deemed a diagram or symbol of an ideal universe. Mandalas come in many forms. Often they are painted on scrolls and taken with travelers over long ...

If the Buddhist art is meant to guide us to enlightenment, it just as often reveals the blood, beauty, and mystery of earthly life.

“Chakrasamvara Mandala,” detail (Nepal, Thakuri–early Malla periods, c. 1100), distemper on cloth Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet continues at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ...

Ever curious about the meaning in those huge sand paintings with their swirls and symbols ... meet seven Tibetan Buddhist monks touring the United States and creating a mandala at the Unitarian ...

“A sand mandala is originally ... also say they get satisfaction. “The symbol of the compassion Buddha, I’m enjoying feeling this,” said one Buddhist Monk. Their visit is being sponsored ...