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If the Buddhist art is meant to guide us to enlightenment, it just as often reveals the blood, beauty, and mystery of earthly life.

In Mandala players take turns building and then destroying your geometric masterpiece. And you'll want to make yours as colorful as possible!

And embedded at the very center, small and pale as a seed pearl, is the Buddha, around whom everything turns. Exhibition view of “Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet” photographed at ...