These monks from the Sera monastery in Southern India have been created their meditation in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art for the last 3 days. Today, they lifted it unto a table and tomorrow, all the sand will be brushed together into a bowl and carried down to the Pacific to give it back to the sea where it came from. It is, among others, a practice of non attachment and impermanence.
These mandalas, concentric diagrams, have spiritual and ritual significance in both Buddhism and Hinduism.[3][4] The term is of Hindu origin and appears in theRig Veda as the name of the sections of the work, but is also used in other Indian religions, particularly Buddhism. In the Tibetan branch of Vajrayana Buddhism, mandalas have been developed into sandpainting. They are also a key part ofanuttarayoga tantra meditation practices.
You find more information in these links:
www.thefreedictionary.com/sand+paintings
www.care2.com/news
www.ndsu.edu/news/article/10606
www.gomang.org/mandala
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