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Tibetan monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery in India work on creating a Mandala sand painting in the Alumni Building at Berea College in Berea, Ky., on Wednesday, April 9, 2008. The monks will spend four days in Berea, one of their stops on the Mystical Arts of Tibet tour. Berea College, which currently has 12 Tibetan students, has had a relationship with the exiled Tibetans since 1991 and the Dalai Lama visited the campus in 1994. The sand mandalas will be destroyed during a ceremony on Friday, and is done as a metaphor of the impermanence of life. The sands are swept up and placed in an urn; to fulfill the function of healing, half is distributed to the audience at the closing ceremony, while the remainder is carried to a nearby body of water, where it is deposited. Photo by David Stephenson | Staff 5487

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Tibetan monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery in India work on creating a Mandala sand painting in the Alumni Building at Berea College in Berea, Ky., on Wednesday, April 9, 2008. The monks will spend four days in Berea, one of their stops on the Mystical Arts of Tibet tour. Berea College, which currently has 12 Tibetan students, has had a relationship with the exiled Tibetans since 1991 and the Dalai Lama visited the campus in 1994. The sand mandalas will be destroyed during a ceremony on Friday, and is done as a metaphor of the impermanence of life. The sands are swept up and placed in an urn; to fulfill the function of healing, half is distributed to the audience at the closing ceremony, while the remainder is carried to a nearby body of water, where it is deposited. Photo by David Stephenson | Staff 5487