Sacred Tibetan Sand Mandala Time Lapse

[@ivomarkoff]

i love the fact that they destroyed everything and gave it all away, after painstakingly labouring for so long to create it.

[@handlepending]

Saw this on House of Cards. Literally the coolest thing I've ever seen!

[@thediabetesclub]

It shows that life is impermanent but this video also shows that beauty is created when working together.

[@chilvari]

Wow! This is truly a masterpiece! So much time & preparation, so many intricate designs & array of colors! God, I would love to see this for myself someday!

[@tstuard40]

amazing...relaxed me so much ..i nearly fell asleep...and i have trouble sleeping so the act and the energy and the monks chanting in the background..wow...beautiful

[@Winkle219]

Hello armjoint1 - here on Vancouver Island,BC there was a celebration of a sand mandala creation by Buddhist lamas. There is a Buddhist temple here. Upon completion and the ritual chanting, mandala is scooped up by the , placed into a container, then scattered into a local river. Change and change. Nothing is permanent. Namaste.

[@davidreguera2619]

true art comes from being in the moment

[@Bobbiejoinscore]

So totally here because of House of Cards. So very cool.

[@1maisecret]

knowing the ever beating heart of eternity is as equal to lines in the sand

[@keithrussell5954]

the mind is like this Mandala as you take years to study/believe your path in life but it is destroyed in seconds by one clean sweep

[@elle4579]

As a child of Tibet, I am so happy that people find Tibet a place full of fascination, but I am also so sad that no one is actually bothered to get to know the real Tibet. You travel to my hometown, you see arts, you enjoy our salt tea, you buy several tassels, and you think you know about it. No, you're not. You merely pay for your little "feelings", and feel good about yourself. When you say those sentence like " free Tibet", my heart is broken. It is easy to say it from thousand miles away, but do yo know it is actually hurt us? Every time I tried to explain to my foreigner friends, they say as a new generation, I'm brainwashed by government, but have you, have anyone of you every asked yourself, whether it is you brainwashed by your government? My mom was born during the so-called most unstable time, she grew up well and healthy, she, and most of her friends never experienced riots or monk repression during her childhood, but things changed when these western idea of "free Tibet" appeared, we stared to hate each other, riots happens in Tibet and Xinjiang...I'm so worried every time riots happened in my hometown, I worry about my parents and my friends....you don't know the feeling of praying all night. A slogan is just a "feel-myself" method, but it is a knife thrown to my heart. Please stoping deepen race hatred.

[@ValeriaHernandez-mo1cq]

elle kong Im with you. Regards from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Not ALL the peolpe say "Free Tibet" Not ALL the peolple is ingenue

[@elle4579]

Valeria Paula thank you, sincerely, thank you

[@FringeWizard2]

Nope I like to deepen race hatred and will keep doing it until a great culling wipes out most of the world's population.

[@FringeWizard2]

Also unlike the idiot mundanes in my country, I know that the utterance "free tibet" carries within it the idea of conflict, slavery, and struggle. I know what an influence it has on the world for people to think these things over and over, how the narrative so framed creates hatred and discord. I know that in creating the victim you create the predator, and so on. Yet I can't find anything within myself to pursue another course of action for the world. The burden of so much mental decay in this world, so much constant inflow of darkness, all under the guise of humanism, egalitarianism, and other fluffy evils pretending to help the world and just hurting it. It is all too much and it must run its course. I don't see any other way. For every one man who, knowing the truth, is capable to be responsible for his influence in the collective dream or maya... there are billions lashing themselves and creating bondage and suffering. The best the enlightened can hope for is to withdraw from the world and let it takes its course. When all their souls are escorted out of this plane after them having made a hellscape out of it, this world will readily heal, but nothing will have changed in the greater scheme. I accept what is; as it is.

[@changabodega6400]

elle kong greetings fellow human/brother /extension of self How and what can us westerners who are under a repressive controller of false freedoms do to make you and Tibet any better off than it is now please tell us what your idea of a solution might be other than just refraining from regurgitating slogans created by people who are so far removed from the more common reality that the majority suffer under ? Please elaborate!

[@ImnotbeautifullikeU]

Can I use this in a lesson plan teaching art students how to create radial designs? I am using the culture of Tibetan Buddhism as an inspiration.

[@CSUSonoma]

The music comes from the CD titled "Lama Chöpa - A Buddhist Tantric Celebration Performed by the Famed Multiphonic Singers of Drepung Loseling Monestarty." You can find it on Amazon.

[@sebastiancoe4708]

I learned about this in history class last year. Very interesting.

[@lev0n3241968]

On the surface, it may seem that it's destroyed, but not the case. The ritual involves a sequence of collecting the sand and releasing it back to the earth. It demonstrates evanescence as part of the succession of life or time. Personally, I'm not half as good as these monks, but the craft has helped me to become more patient.

[@ThePosichris]

Thank you for the lesson

[@ItsPolitiks]

Here because of House of Cards!!!

[@DHER909]

Me to!

[@Acroteleutium]

Me too!

[@FringeWizard2]

Here because I'm a Discordian.

[@toolaazy]

Here because I am. Why, is what is to be figured out...

[@ImOutsideTheBox]

these guys put like a month into this shit and I'm skipping through the video like an irritable ADHD child....

[@JoeMangrum_Sandman]

its actually only 4 days

[@PhillipJohnsonZENOPHILE]

The Spiritual Technologies of the world, How may I express thee.

[@aten-watheba3825]

I think it is a lovely ritual. No, I'm not Tibetan, but still. Make it beautifully, brake it beautifully.

[@VilliageSquidiot]

I was shown this and somehow these monks have calmed me ... kind of helped with my existential crisis...

[@thediabetesclub]

Theres one coming up in Hampton Virginia this weekend.

[@huejazzforever7738]

What is this music called? Is there a specific name for it?

[@The1113thDoctor]

If you'd like to practice impermanence try a Buddha Board out. You paint on it with water that slowly fades over time allowing you to enjoy the present and to remind you of impermanence.

[@daliolli]

Hi, what's the name of the hymn or song that is being played in this video?

[@michaelacrivello]

beautiful

[@ronnkerber1059]

The fleeting nature of materialism.

[@saramarhaug7402]

I love this!!

[@Neve_Give_up]

@daboognish88 Well it depend some mandala take more then a week to finish. I think this mandala took 4 days to complete. There is a both symbolic as well as sacred energy, Symbolic is that everything is Impermanence that's why at the end they destroy mandala. Scared energy is that if you get blessing then it will give you positive emotions and energy. There are many type of mandalas.

[@1maisecret]

ha ha geshe la blowing the trumpet grasping continuous sound dear zopa

[@asselabilseitova6138]

is it allowed to use this video for music project? do i need to ask permission?

[@Xplorer228]

how many hours do you think it took?

[@Xplorer228]

do they believe theres some kind of sacred energy in the sand? or is it just symbolic?

[@Andytlp]

is there a real time video of this?

[@laxxer18]

Any fellow House of Cards fans if your curious its called a Chakpur Tool.

[@DHER909]

Thanks...saw it in House of Cards and ended up here.

[@Xplorer228]

Gotcha, thanks.

[@iniagmar]

Om mani padme hum

[@Whole-Balance]

That's really coooooool.

[@choiguanan5226]

how long did it really take?

[@1maisecret]

tantra for me dar geshe la is like one thousand oracles of sand understanding the thousand oracle of the sand trying to help the learned college students when mandala is completed jero is the first dharma pala

[@SuperFCBA]

that's the point

[@boxanova66]

the ending is the point of it all

[@Tio_Nel]

Being nothing, manifest everything in an unceasing display

[@angelstar3418]

Frank Underwood got me here.

[@yrasphong]

Sacred geometry

[@madeofhatred]

only in the sense that all of reality is sacred...

[@stiffori]

Like Legos with sand insted of bricks

[@ionian1973]

And they cleaned up when they were done!

[@darioteich]

Yes. They create Universes and erase Universes. Like God (don't matter how you concieve It) make with us.

[@crossfire1129]

Dario Teich "Is it that our minds are our compasses, and navigate the sea of infinite possibilities?; Move into the happieness that is possible"

[@mangkrpromraksa5032]

อายุไขมังกร

[@igivup4815]

Kill Bill, Destroy, Joy... I think thats what they are chanting... Anyone else hear that?

[@hansellancephilippe4075]

The sound is so creepy.

[@datgoatfilms]

U WOT M8

[@kaz163]

2:27 in just a moment the one guy messed up the top right corner. Blobbing yellow over the line where red and yellow meet in the corner. And sadly it was never fixed. 😔

[@severrnijKGU]

naawww Im pretty sure that it can be used as a tool to help you memorize a meditative object with over 1000pcs. If you do it with the correct mind intention then you stand the chance to make some powerful merit. Technically speaking you could visualize a meditative object of over 1,000,000pcs. bnut its just pretty pictures in your head without the firm basis of a real practice. don't listen to me. why am I writing this?

[@Wolfsbane909]

spend some time to make something pretty and nice then it gets destroyed lol

[@akeru999]

beautiful