The Storm Around Serenity; At the Sackler, Crowds Swarm As Monks Make a Mandala From: The Washington Post | Date: January 12, 2002| Author: Philip Kennicott | Copyright 2002 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Three floors below the National Mall, in a packed exhibition hall next to the Sackler Gallery, about a zillion people and a half-dozen TV crews have gathered to get spiritual with a small troupe of Tibetan Buddhist monks. As of yesterday, which marked four months since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, and continuing through Jan. 27, the monks of the Drepung Loseling Monastery will construct an elaborate circular sand painting -- a mandala -- as a prayer for healing and a gift to the United ...

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