WEBSITE STORY: Discover the world of Tibetan mandalas, NATION

From: The Nation (Thailand) | Date: June 17, 2002| Author: Xavier Galland | Copyright information


The Nation (Thailand)

06-17-2002

Asian Art is a very good site that offers many (and I mean many)
online exhibitions. We'll visit a few of these in the next few weeks and/or
months starting today with: 'Early Tibetan Mandalas: The Rossi Collection'.

For those not familiar with the word a mandala, it is a symbolic
diagram - basically a representation of the universe - used in the performance
of sacred rites and as an instrument of meditation in...

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