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Title: Buddhist sand mandala
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Chinn, Paul
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1989
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph caption reads: "Buddhist monks from the Namgyal Monastery in India begin the painstaking work on a Kalachakra Sand Mandala at the Museum of Natural History. Tenzin Ledgan carefully distributes minute amounts of sand while curious onlookers observe the process. Work will continue for six weeks". Photograph dated: July 6, 1989.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;27 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00078186
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b041_f3_i35
CARL0000079789
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24679
Subject: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Buddhist monks--India
Natural history museums--California--Los Angeles County
Sandpaintings
Mandala--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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