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a sand mandala, similar to the one shown, from Tuesday through
Jan. 18 at Queen Ka‘ahumanu Center. The monks for five days will
work on the sacred mandala and, by tradition, wipe it away at
the end, with the sand given to the public. The creation and
destruction of the mandala represent the impermanence of life
and the ideal of nonattachment to the material world. Sand
mandala to be made The Maui News, January 7, 2009 Tibetan monks
to create colorful image, to be wiped away at the end, at
Ka‘ahumanu Center KAHULUI, Hawaii -- Tibetan Buddhist monks will
create a sand mandala as part of the Tibetan Cultural Fair at
the Queen Ka'ahumanu Center from Tuesday to Jan. 18. For five
days, five monks from the Dzongkar Choede Monastery of Mysore,
India, will construct a 7-by-7-foot medicine Buddha sand mandala
on a flat wooden base. Maui residents will have an opportunity
to watch the creation of the mandala, which will be wiped away
by tradition with the s