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Join us to witness the creation of a beautiful sand mandala. The mandala is a Tibetan Buddhist ritual artform that helps viewers to envision enlightenment. Venerable Lama Losang Samten will create the intricate and colorful patterns of the mandala over the course of several days. When he is done, he will conduct a dissolution ritual at which the mandala will be destroyed as a meditation upon impermanence. The particular mandala to be created at U of A is the Kalachakra or “Wheel of Time,” regarded as an especially powerful tool for healing and transformation and transmitted to Buddhist practitioners across the world.
OPENING CEREMONY
OCT 12, 2025 | 11AM
PUBLIC VIEWINGS
OCT 13 – 17, 2025
9AM – 12PM and 3 – 6PM (Thursday until 5PM)
DISSOLUTION RITUAL & RECEPTION
OCT 18, 2025 | 2PM
Presented by Arizona Friends of Tibet in partnership with the College of Humanities 2025 Tucson Humanities Festival and hosted by the University of Arizona: Center for Buddhist Studies, Health Humanities Hub, Department of Religious Studies & Classics, Department of East Asian Studies, and the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine