Mystical Art of Tibet

Tibetan monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery in India created a mandala sand painting in the Alumni Building at Berea College in Berea, Ky., on Wednesday, April 9, 2008. The monks will spend four days in Berea, one of their stops on the Mystical Arts of Tibet tour. Berea College, which currently has 12 Tibetan students, has had a relationship with the exiled Tibetans since 1991 and the Dalai Lama visited the campus in 1994. The sand mandala will be destroyed during a ceremony on Friday, and is done as a metaphor of the impermanence of life.

View an audio slideshow of the closing ceremony and the dispersal of the sand at Anglin Falls.

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