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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Sun Nov 23, 2014, 09:04 AM Nov 2014

Get Up Close And Personal With This Impossibly Intricate Buddhist Sand Mandala

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/22/buddhist-sand-mandalas_n_6185680.html?utm_hp_ref=religion

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Get Up Close And Personal With This Impossibly Intricate Buddhist Sand Mandala (Original Post) hrmjustin Nov 2014 OP

This is my favorite mandala story. rug Nov 2014 #1

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1. This is my favorite mandala story.

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Sun Nov 23, 2014, 12:32 PM

Nov 2014

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2014/04/small_boy_mistakes_jersey_city_sand_mandala_for_playground_destroys_hours_of_work.html

“They didn’t want to disappoint anybody,” said Lobsang Chodak, of Newark, whose sister is providing a temporary home for the monks here in Jersey City.

Chodak added that the child who damaged the mandala inadvertently taught everyone the lesson it’s supposed to impart.

“It’s so beautiful and then, next thing, it’s gone,” he said.

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