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The Venerable Losang Samten is back in Philly (my previous run ins with Losang here and here – he's a friend of a friend), this time at UARts creating another Buddhist mandala. From UArts:

The Venerable Losang Samten, spiritual director of Tibetan Buddhist Center of Philadelphia, will create a Kalachakra, a Tibetan sand mandala, at the Open Lens Gallery of Gershman Hall (401 S. Broad St.) at the University of the Arts over the course of the next month, as an offering to the city of Philadelphia. The event is sponsored by the University of the Arts and the Gershman Y.

I ran into Losang on election day (UArts is my polling location) and chatted with him for a minute after voting. He allowed me to snap a few frames off and I let him get back to work. It's relaxing to watch him work. He rakes one steel rod against another to intricately drip colored grains of sand to create the richly colored mandala.

Samten will be in town until around Thanksgiving.

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