Uploaded April 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Throwback Thursday! Last year from March 5-7, The Carnegie Center for Art and History hosted seven Tibetan monks from the Labrang Tashi Kyil Monastery for a series of public programs. This included the creation of the 2019 World Peace Mandala, a sand painting to help encourage peace and understanding, which was created on the floor of the Carnegie Center’s front foyer. After hours of painstaking work to create the finished design, the artwork was then swept up and ritually destroyed as a reminder of the Buddhist principle of impermanence. The mandala was finished in a closing ceremony that involved a colorful procession of monks and visitors carrying what was left of the swept-up mandala to the New Albany’s riverfront.
Throwback Thursday! Last year from March 5-7, The Carnegie Center for Art and History hosted seven Tibetan monks from the Labrang Tashi Kyil Monastery for a series of public programs. This included the creation of the 2019 World Peace Mandala, a sand painting to help encourage peace and understanding, which was created on the floor of the Carnegie Center’s front foyer. After hours of painstaking work to create the finished design, the artwork was then swept up and ritually destroyed as a reminder of the Buddhist principle of impermanence. The mandala was finished in a closing ceremony that involved a colorful procession of monks and visitors carrying what was left of the swept-up mandala to the New Albany’s riverfront.
