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

Mandalas are Buddhist devotional images often deemed a diagram or symbol of an ideal ... was born in what is today Nepal in 563 B.C.E. While we know that his followers spread the message of ...

There are works of art at the Crow Museum of Asian ... "When we're making the mandala, our intention is for blessing, you know," Buddhist monk Geshe Tsewang Punchok said. Punchok is one of four ...

It’s a group of Buddhist monks who go around communities and create sand mandalas, which are intricate designs that are brushed away once they’re completed. It represents the cycle of creation ...