With each careful tap of a specialized metal cone, sand master Geshe Legden Gompo expertly places the sand onto the design of the mandala. Mandala means that which extracts the essence. It’s a ...

Imagine spending more than 30 hours painstakingly detailing an elaborate piece of art, finally perfecting the work, then destroying it merely hours later. That is what a group of seven Tibetan ...

Creating a mandala is as painstaking as it is beautiful. Grain by grain, two Tibetan monks meticulously placed colored sand during the last two weeks on the campus of UC Irvine, forming a brightly ...

Gera Kwong Ka-lai, a receptionist at a Hong Kong security company, had never picked up a paintbrush or shown any interest in creative arts – until she discovered she had cancer. When she was diagnosed ...

JILA is holding anniversary events on Thursday and Friday. On Thursday, free lectures will be offered in the Old Main Chapel on the University of Colorado campus from 9 a.m. through 5:15 p.m. For a ...