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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: Buddhist monks from the Namgyal Monastery in India begin the painstaking work on a Kalachakra Sand Mandala at the Museum of Natural History. Work will continue for six weeks.
Photograph caption reads: "Indian monk, above, begins painstaking work on mandala". Photograph dated: July 7, 1989.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;28 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00078187
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b041_f3_i36
CARL0000079790
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24680
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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