Sand Mandala is a Tibetan Buddhist tradition involving the creation and destruction of mandalas made from coloured sand.

A Mandala is a spiritual and ritual symbol representing the universe.

In spiritual traditions, a Mandala may be used to focus attention of practitioners, as a spiritual guidance tool, to establish a sacred space, and as a help to meditation and trance induction.

The destruction of a Sand Mandala is highly ceremonial. Even the deity syllables are removed in a specific order along with the rest of the geometry until at last the mandala has been dismantled.

The sand is collected in a jar which is then wrapped in silk and transported to a river, where it is released back into nature. This symbolizes the ephemerality of life and the World.

There’s a natural mystic

Blowing through the air

If you listen carefully now you will hear

This could be the first trumpet

Might as well be the last

Many more will have to suffer

Many more will have to die

Don’t ask me why

Things are not the way they used to be

I won’t tell no lie

One and all got to face reality now

Though I try to find the answer

To all the questions they ask

Though I know it’s impossible

To go living through the past

Don’t tell no lie

There’s a natural mystic

Blowing through the air

Can’t keep them down

If you listen carefully now you will hear

Such a natural mystic

Blowing through the air

This could be the first trumpet

Might as well be the last

Many more will have to suffer

Many more will have to die

Don’t ask me why

There’s a natural mystic

Blowing through the air

I won’t tell no lie

If you listen carefully now, you will hear