Buddhist Work Graces Maine College of Art

KENNEBEC JOURNAL
By Glenn Jordan

MAINE -  Tibetan Buddhist monk Geshe Gendun Gyatso led a prayer Sunday during the deconstruction ceremony of a sand mandala that was created over the week by monks at the Maine College of Art in Portland. That's one lesson, and a rather simplistic one at that, to be drawn from Sunday's ceremony culminating the weeklong creation of an elaborate sand mandala by a Tibetan Buddhist monk and a trained mandala master. Geshe Gendun Gyatso and Sonam Dhargye worked 11-hour days Monday through Friday at the Maine College of Art on Congress Street, painstakingly arranging grains of colored sand into a circular design that included spiritual motifs. [link]