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Sand mandala (Tibetan: དཀྱིལ་འཁོར།, Wylie: dkyil 'khor, THL kyinkhor; Chinese: 沙壇城/壇城沙畫) is a Tibetan Buddhist tradition involving the creation and destruction of mandalas made from colored sand.
The monks came to town this week to spend four days creating the intricate artwork — before destroying it.
Tibetan sand mandala being ritually swept up by monks. Some artwork is made to be intentionally sacrificed in a ceremonial or ritual process, often by burning. Tibetan sand mandalas are meticulously constructed to visualize Buddhist cosmology, before being swept up and bottled or otherwise ritually disposed
Sand mandalas are colorful mandalas made from sand that are ritualistically destroyed. They originated in India in the 8th–12th century but are now practiced in Tibetan Buddhism. [26] Each mandala is dedicated to specific deities.
Looters and the Taliban destroyed much of Pakistan's Buddhist artifacts left over from the Buddhist Gandhara civilization especially in Swat Valley. [137] Gandhara Buddhist relics were deliberately targeted by the Taliban for destruction, [ 138 ] and illegally looted by smugglers. [ 139 ]
Navajo sandpainting, photogravure by Edward S. Curtis, 1907, Library of Congress. In the sandpainting of southwestern Native Americans (the most famous of which are the Navajo [known as the Diné]), the Medicine Man (or Hatałii) paints loosely upon the ground of a hogan, where the ceremony takes place, or on a buckskin or cloth tarpaulin, by letting the coloured sands flow through his fingers ...
Tyla wearing a sand-coloured dress at the 2024 Met Gala, celebrating 'Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion' at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
Most Tibetan Buddhist monasteries, temples and other religious structures in the Himalayas were decorated with Tibetan Buddhist wall paintings. Despite much destruction in Tibet itself, many of these survive, the dry climate of the Tibetan plateau assisting their survival, as the wet Indian climate has reduced survival of paintings from there.