Mark your calendars and plan to join your friends and neighbors for a week with the Drepung Loseling monks as they create a Mandala Sand Painting at Bud Werner Library, perform Sacred Music Sacred Dance at Strings Music Festival, and host a community blessing, meditation and two public talks.
Mandala on the Yampa is Aug. 9-14, 2022.
As you anticipate our 2022 Mandala on the Yampa residency, take a minute to reminisce about their past visits to Bud Werner Library in 2010 and 2015.
Documenting the 2022 Mandala on the Yampa residency
Follow our blog throughout the monks' visit! You'll find in-depth details about all the 2022 Mandala on the Yampa events, plus blog entries where the library will post photos of the mandala's progression, stories from the residency and educational information for a deeper dive.
Mandala on the Yampa Schedule
Tuesday, Aug. 9
Wednesday, Aug. 10
10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monks work on the Mandala Sand Painting in Library Hall
10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Community Sand Painting in Library Hall
Thursday, Aug. 11
10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Monks work on the Mandala Sand Painting in Library Hall
10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Community Sand Painting in Library Hall
7 p.m. Sacred Music Sacred Dance performance at the Strings Pavilion
Friday, Aug. 12
8:30 a.m. Coffee Talk at the Strings Pavilion: Tibet Today
10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Monks work on the Mandala Sand Painting in Library Hall
10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Community Sand Painting in Library Hall
Saturday, Aug. 13
10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Monks work on the Mandala Sand Painting in Library Hall
10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Community Sand Painting in Library Hall
Sunday, Aug. 14
8:30 a.m. Community meditation at Yampa River Botanic Park
10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Monks work on the Mandala Sand Painting in Library Hall
10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Community Sand Painting in Library Hall
7 p.m. Closing ceremony, traveling from Library Hall to the banks of the Yampa River in front of Bud Werner Library
