{"id":69616,"date":"2017-07-18T12:21:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T18:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/tibetan-monks-sweep-away-sand-mandala\/"},"modified":"2017-07-18T18:21:19","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T18:21:19","slug":"tibetan-monks-sweep-away-sand-mandala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/tibetan-monks-sweep-away-sand-mandala\/","title":{"rendered":"Tibetan monks sweep away sand mandala"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=070f7772-64f4-49dc-a428-34a35af4b979&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" alt=\"One of the Tibetan monks from the Gaden Shartse Monastery in India divides the sand mandala into four sections before it is swept away after a blessing and closing ceremony.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">One of the Tibetan monks from the Gaden Shartse Monastery in India divides the sand mandala into four sections before it is swept away after a blessing and closing ceremony.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Mia Rupani\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Five Tibetan monks from the Gaden Shartse Monastery in India performed a blessing and closing ceremony Saturday afternoon after completing a mandala at Sorrel Sky Gallery.<\/p>\n<p>It took about 140 hours over five days to finish the mandala, which was made by hand from colorful sand and dedicated to the Buddha of Wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony attracted a crowd of more than 100 people, all of whom watched in awe as the monks prayed before sweeping away the sand and bagging portions to gift to onlookers.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining sand was poured into the Animas River to bless the water and all it touches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>closing ceremony attracted a large crowd to Sorrel Sky Gallery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-69616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69616"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=69616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}