Get Up Close And Personal With This Impossibly Intricate Buddhist Sand Mandala

In Buddhist tradition, a mandala is a sacred image that graphically represents the universe and is intended for use during meditation. Typically circular in shape, a mandala has a central point -- called a "seed" or "drop" -- toward which all energies are thought to converge. Buddhist monks frequently create mandalas out of paper, cloth or as three-dimensional models -- but occasionally they use bowls of colored sand, which must be delicately placed in a painstaking process that can take weeks. ...