The excruciatingly slow and intentional process of building a sand painting Mandala is gorgeous to watch and consider.
An up-close and personal look at monks from the Drigung Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism constructing a sand mandala at Asia Society Museum over the course of five days. The mandala they created is a Shitro mandala — "the mandala of the One Hundred Peaceful and Wrathful Deities." Sand mandala time-lapse: http://scty.asia/mandalatlp
Tibetan Buddhism Sand Mandala