Our school was recently lucky enough to witness the construction of a sand mandala. What I didn’t realize is that the tools that the monks use to place the sand makes a really interesting scratching noise. They used one tube with a small channel in it that had ridges on the top. This was scratched with another tube, which lets a small stream of sand flow. The organizers ran a short question and answer session to answer the reasoning and representation of the mandala, and then preceded to perform a ceremony and wipe away the sand into a jar, which was then transported to a nearby lake. They were working on this particular mandala for about a week, from nine to five.
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