Sand Mandala Project

Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery are visiting the Blanton Museum of Art, where they are constructing an intricate, large-scale mandala using million of grains of sand in the museum’s soaring two-story atrium. Construction of the mandala will take place during museum hours through Sunday. The Sand Mandala Project is presented as part of the exhibit “Into the Sacred City: Tibetan Buddhist Deities from the Theos Bernard Collection.”

On Sunday a closing ceremony will begin… Show more at 2 p.m. As a gesture to mark the impermanence of all that exists, the monks will sweep up the colored sand, distribute half to the audience and place the remainder in an urn to be dispersed in Waller Creek. At 3:30 p.m. a procession to Waller Creek will begin.

Free with museum admission ($5-$9; Thursdays are free). Museum hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. Blanton Museum of Art, 202 E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. www.blantonmuseum.org.

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