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Anonymous
mandalas go!
>> Anonymous
i wonder how many here realize that these are made of sand over the course weeks to months and destoyed immediately upon completion
>> Anonymous
>>423997
yea... i wonder why they do that....
>> Anonymous
>>424118

Symbolism of life (at least I think it's life). It's about how long something could take to be created, but then disappear in an instant.
>> Anonymous
in the same way that they do not attribute the mandalas to any particular person
>> Anonymous
Yea, they're pretty amazing.

Youtube has some videos of them being made.
>> Anonymous
>>424118
they destroy it immediately after to show the impermanence of all things.
>> Anonymous
>>423562
sadly this is the only hr of one ive seen on the internet