{"id":263,"date":"2014-03-17T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2014\/03\/making-a-mandala-five-monks-five-days.html"},"modified":"2017-04-13T08:23:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T13:23:50","slug":"making-a-mandala-five-monks-five-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2014\/03\/making-a-mandala-five-monks-five-days.html","title":{"rendered":"Making a Mandala: Five Monks, Five Days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

<\/iframe><\/p>\nEver wonder how <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/buddhism' target='_blank'>Buddhist<\/a> monks make those elegant and intricate mandalas? \u00a0Last month, a group of monks agreed to construct a mandala for the Arthur Ross Gallery at Asia Society Museum in New York.<\/p>\nYou can watch as the monks trace the outline of a cosmic chart. Next, <a href=\"http:\/\/asiasociety.org\/blog\/asia\/videos-100-peaceful-and-wrathful-deities-emerge-millions-grains-sand\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">according to the Asia Society <\/a>, the monks begin a \u201cdrawing process,\u201dwhich utilizes metal funnels known as chak-pur. Colored sand is scooped into these funnels and, using scrapers, monks add the sand to the design by means of a back-and-forth scraping motion over the ridges of the funnels.\u201d<\/p>\nIt\u2019s a pretty cool process. \nEver wonder how Buddhist monks make those elegant and intricate mandalas? \u00a0Last month, a group of monks agreed to construct a mandala for the Arthur Ross Gallery at Asia Society Museum in New York.<\/p>\nYou can watch as the monks trace the outline of a cosmic chart. Next, <a href=\"http:\/\/asiasociety.org\/blog\/asia\/videos-100-peaceful-and-wrathful-deities-emerge-millions-grains-sand\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">according to the Asia Society <\/a>, the monks begin a \u201cdrawing process,\u201dwhich utilizes metal funnels known as chak-pur. Colored sand is scooped into these funnels and, using scrapers, monks add the sand to the design by means of a back-and-forth scraping motion over the ridges of the funnels.\u201d<\/p>\nIt\u2019s a pretty cool process.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ever wonder how Buddhist monks make those elegant and intricate mandalas? \u00a0Last month, a group of monks agreed to construct a mandala for the Arthur Ross Gallery at Asia Society Museum in New York. You can watch as the monks trace the outline of a cosmic chart. 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