print email comment close Tibetan Healing Mandala URL: http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/mandala/ Description: This companion to an exhibit at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution features information about the mandala ("a geometric composition wherein deities reside") and Tibetan Buddhism. "In response to the September 11 tragedies, twenty Buddhist monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery constructed a sand mandala" at the gallery. View images of the exhibit and time-lapse photos of the mandala construction process. Publisher: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Library of Congress Subject Headings: Buddhism -- China -- Tibet Buddhist art and symbolism Mandala (Buddhism) LII Database Information: Record 3493 created by Jennifer English on 12/01/2003 Last modification on 12/16/2003 Published: 12/01/2003   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/3493