MAY 20 Mandala Construction and Viewing , Western Gallery. The monks will be working on the mandala from 3 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 16 through Friday, May 19. Once the diagram is laid out, the colored sand is applied to the mandala through the end of a metal funnel. The funnel is filled with colored sand and is then rasped to release a fine stream of sand. The artists begin at the center of the mandala and work outward.
Visitors can walk around the mandala s perimeter, viewing it from a variety of angles.
A continuous slide exhibit by Huxley s Scott Brennan, featuring the beauty of Tibet, will be on view in the adjacent gallery. Sponsored by Western s Center for East Asian Studies, His Holiness Ngawang Tenzin Migyur Rinpoche, head lama of the Migyur Monastery in the eastern Tibetan region of Litang, will lecture. Drepung Loseling Monastery senior monk Geshe Dakpa Kalsang discusses the mandala as a sacred cosmogram used as an object of contemplation. The monks will conclude their creation of the mandala with its consecration in a ceremony of chants, music and meditation. Free, tickets required.