Sand mandalas at the museum

Only six days remain in the run of our exhibition The Dragon’s Gift: The Sacred Arts of Bhutan, and I think everyone at the museum will be sorry to see it go. The visiting Bhutanese monks, Lopen Neten Dorji and Lopen Gyem Dorji, have been wonderful. Visitors can observe them performing daily purification rituals and prayers (puja) for sacred objects in the exhibition at 11:00 and 3:00 on most days. They have also created two beautiful sand mandalas. A detail from one is shown above. Remarkably, the monk spreads the sand for the mandalas using only his fingers.

To see more, visit our Bhutan Flickr set. 

2 Responses to “Sand mandalas at the museum”

  1. elias davis  on October 30th, 2009 at 6:39 pm

    Good Morning just figured i will let you know i had a issue with your blog appearing blank also. Must be chimpanzees in the system.

  2. xensen  on October 31st, 2009 at 2:09 pm

    Elias

    What do you mean by “also”? I hadn’t heard about a problem.

    How did you leave a comment if the blog was blank?


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