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Tibetan Monks Visit Kresge Art Museum, May 1-7; East Lansing

ìPaintingî with colored sand is one of the most exquisite art traditions of Tantric Buddhism, and the opportunity to view the creation of a sand mandala is one experience not to be missed. Kresge Art Museum is privileged to have Tibetan and Mongolian monks from the Gyudmed Monastery in Mongolia in residence for one week as they create and ceremonially destroy a sand mandala. The mandala will be created over a period of seven days during which millions of grains of sand are painstakingly laid in place using hollow pipes called Chak-purs, through which the sand is vibrated into the design. When the mandala is finished it will be ritually dismantled during an impressive ceremony to symbolize the impermanence of all that exists. The grains will then be released into the Red Cedar River behind Kresge Art Museum.

Complete event details are available at the Kresge Art Museum web site

Posted/updated Apr 23, 2006
by William Stevens (Absolute Michigan Lifestyles Editor)