This week, a group of Tibetan monks created a sand mandala in the forum at Genesee Community College. The mandala symbolized love and compassion.
Hundreds of people came through the Batavia campus over the past four days to see the creation of the mandala.
Part of the spiritual message of the mandala is that when it's completed, it's destroyed, to symbolize the temporary nature of life.
The ceremony included chants and then the mandala was swept into piles and a portion placed into baggies for members of the audience to receive, and a portion placed into ceremonial vessels and then carried to the Tonawanda Creek where the sand was dumped into the flowing water.
Previously: Mandala being created by monks at GCC meant to symbolize love and compassion
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