Monday, September 9, 2013

Art One - Blog 3 - Mandala

Tibetan monks create a mandala (sand painting) as a ritual.  Watch this short video.  What do you think about the image and the symbolism?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QItAyepAnI

35 comments:

  1. the mandala is very beautiful and it looks very time consuming. it symbolizes the impermanence of life. - Kendall

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  2. The image is incredible, it is so amazing! I think it symbolizes the mortality of humans

    -Stephen Dance

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  3. see the first time, it's not like a mandala. but it's very besutuful, afterwards, i'm sure this picture of mandala.it looks is a difficult job.

    -Denny Deng

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  4. CREATIVE. VERY COLORFUL!
    TORRIAN

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  5. It is beautiful, looks very painstaking which makes it more admirable.It symbolizes healing and prefect balance.

    Brynna Wilson

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  6. obviously they are gorgeous but I feel like symbolizes how even once your physical life ends a spiritual one begins. just because your time here on earth is done does not mean that you are without purpose. almost like reincarnation but not the same

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  7. I think its sad that they work so hard to make something so beautiful , only for it to be destroyed. It symbolizes life ,and in my own opinion that beauty cant and wont last.

    -Meghan Chamlee

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  8. This is so intriguing! I can't imagine what it must feel like to spend so much time on something then have it swept away. I don’t know any of the ancient symbols, but it would probably make the sand painting even more interesting if I did. I don’t think I'll even be using one of those chak-purs, but I'd like to see how one works.
    - Haley Harden

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  9. The Mandala is great! There are many buddhists in the west of China.They believe Mandala can give lucky to human.Because the Buddhism thinks the mandala as auspicious flower.

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  10. The Mandala is great! There are many buddhists in the west of China.They believe Mandala can give lucky to human.Because the Buddhism thinks the mandala as auspicious flower.

    Jennifer.Jia

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  11. they spend a lot of time on this thing just to trash it in the end just sayin.

    Allen Leach

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  12. It's kinda sad how they destroyed their beautiful work at the end. The details were amazing.

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  13. It's really amazing how beautiful and colorful these designs are and how long they take to complete. It's a shame how they destroy it in the end though.
    Will Barkley

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  14. They look awesome! It's very tedious work though that would require a lot of time and effort. The symbolism probably has to do with their culture.
    Megan I

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  15. I think it is hard to make the picture, it nend to spend a long time to finish. First, we need draw graph, second we need to add color to make it colorful.But the end product is wonderful!--Kevin Zhang

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  16. i think it is really cool how they can make amazing pictures out of sand and then ruin it

    -tristan hilyer

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  17. i think it is really cool how they can make amazing pictures out of sand and then ruin it

    -tristan hilyer

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  18. I thought that the piece was amazing and it surprised me when they ruined it.

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  19. I think it looks nice, but I don't fully understand why they trash it.
    - Jackson Combs

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  20. i love this master piece
    daniel weaver

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  21. I think mandala picture is beautiful and full. It's amazing!

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  22. I think this is beautiful. And I think they drawed quickly.Maybe people are from China, I like this.
    Tia Ouyang

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  23. i think that it is amazing how they can make such intricate designs out of sand. and when they destroy it at the end, it is supposed to symbolize the impermanence of life.
    -Landon Newberry

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  24. I think it is very pretty and detailed, but I don't think it should be trashed after all of that hard work. It symbolizes that life does not last forever.
    -Laney Elliott

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  25. I think it's cool and it is awesome how much detail can be made with sand. I think its kind of stupid how they destroy it when they are done though.

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  26. Its good stuff! it looks really cool. takes way too much work to just destroy it.
    -Evan Sapp

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  27. The mandala was incredible. Way too tedious to destroy!
    Rachel Buckland

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  28. i think its really gorgeous to see and the symbolism of how they disperse the sand is a very beautiful concept to me.
    -jillian

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  29. Very creative and cool

    - Oshowen

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  30. I like the mandela but it looks hard
    -TJ Sams

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  31. It is great.
    Jack.Yang

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  32. I enjoy watching it being made
    Cameron bardash

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  33. It looks cool, but it would be so time consuming. it symbolizes the impermanence of life

    -Wesley Hanson

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  34. Wow these things take forever, I guess I can understand destroying half of it being for prayer. do you believe that there could be a Christian way of doing this?

    -sonny

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