“It was easier on my back than creating these intricate mandalas,” Priyadarshi says of the traditional 50-hour process. But getting a robot to sketch a design on the wall seems counterproductive.

MANDALAS are intricate replicas of holy mansions, laboriously constructed and destroyed soon after their completion. They can be made of jewels, flowers, dyed rice, colored stones or colored sand.

Mandalas, figures that often feature concentrically arranged, repeating shapes, originated in both Hinduism and Buddhism as ritual symbols for the universe. Buddhist monks painstakingly create and ...

Tibetan Buddhist monks are back in Houston to create an intricate mandala made of colored sand at the Asia Society Texas Center in the Museum District. The monks, who are from the Drepung Loseling ...

Buddhist monks are crafting intricate sand mandalas at the Drepung Gomang Center in Louisville to promote compassion and world peace. Skip to content. NOWCAST WLKY News at 4:30am.