Tibetan monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery visited Savannah
to create this Akshobya Mandala to promote world peace.
(This is only the second time this mandala has been created in the western hemisphere.)
The Telfair Museum of Art hosted this two week event.
Murray Silver explains the meaning of each section of the mandala.
The "sand" used to create the mandala is finely ground marble.
After they were finished creating the mandala, there was a closing ceremony
and blessing before it was destroyed.
Destroying the mandala represents the impermanence of life.
(Hundreds gasped as this happened.)
Going...
Going...
Gone.
Some of the sand was poured into the Savannah River
to disperse the blessings throughout the area.
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