In addition to the mandala, the monks are hosting discussions, slide shows, pujas — chants and prayers — and lectures during their tour, which is sponsored by the Fields Center and Community House.

Tibetan Buddhist monks visited San Luis Obispo this week to create a colorful sand mandala. Visiting from the Ngari Institute of Buddhist Dialects in India, the monks started building the mandala at ...

On Friday at Trinity College’s Austin Arts Center seven Buddhist nuns from the Keydong nunnery in Kathmandu will start making a mandala for the Buddhist deity of peace, Avaolokitreshvara. The nuns ...

Six Tibetan monks in maroon and orange robes are quietly setting up an altar to the Dalai Lama in the lobby of The Menil Collection. The monks put out bowls of rice and fruit and sticks of incense as ...

You might recognize the holy men from Tibet's Drepung Loseling Monastery from the Netflix series "House of Cards." But they were famous before that. They have been painstakingly building a sacred ...