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

Then, you erase the drawn axes. Mandalas are pictures to color in and your mandala is now finished and ready for you to fill with colorful colors. There are no limits to your imagination here.

Visitors have been pausing in the space, considered sacred as the monk work, to take photos ... part of the art is its ultimate dismantling. After the monks complete the mandala on Friday, they ...