Presented in collaboration with the College of Humanities, Center for Buddhist Studies, Health Humanities Hub, Department of Religious Studies & Classics, and the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine
Opening Ceremony: October 12 @ 11AM
Public Viewings: October 13 – 17 @ 9AM – 12PM and 3–6PM
Dissolution Ritual: October 18 @ 2PM
The Arizona Friends of Tibet invite you to witness the creation of a sand mandala on the U of A campus. The mandala is a Tibetan Buddhist ritual artform that helps viewers to envision enlightenment. Venerable Lama Losang Samten will create the intricate and colorful patterns of the mandala over the course of several days. When he is done, he will conduct a dissolution ritual at which the mandala will be destroyed as a meditation upon impermanence. The particular mandala to be created at U of A is the Kalachakra or “Wheel of Time,” regarded as an especially powerful tool for healing and transformation and transmitted to Buddhist practitioners across the world.
