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	The Art of Sand Mandalas

willhelm

9-30-2008 10:27 PM

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10-1-2008 2:12 AM

merrie

...nice clip! thanks

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e3016baf-51b7-4d1e-ab46-7ae513b78082/61AAB6B5-7E0E-49C6-9813-8EC50F8BC08E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2008/09/30/the-colorful-art-of-sand-mandalas/" href="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2008/09/30/the-colorful-art-of-sand-mandalas/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.colourlovers.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2008/09/30/the-colorful-art-of-sand-mandalas/"><P>The <A target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_mandala">Sand Mandala</A> is a Tibetan Buddhist tradition which symbolizes the transitory nature of things. As part of <A target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_Buddhist_canon">Buddhist canon</A>, all things material are seen as transitory. A sand mandala is an example of this, being that once it has been built and its accompanying ceremonies and viewing are finished, it is systematically destroyed.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2008/09/30/the-colorful-art-of-sand-mandalas/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.colourlovers.com/img/791ED889-B71B-483B-B825-5AC8B529712F" alt="mandalafinal.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2008/09/30/the-colorful-art-of-sand-mandalas/"><P>Historically, the mandala was not created with natural, dyed sand, but granules of crushed colored stone. In modern times, plain white stones are ground down and dyed with opaque inks to achieve the same effect. 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