MR2027 Procession to the ephemeral

In the mountainous valley of Bumtang, Bhutan, at the end of a ceremony that lasts nine days and nine nights without interruption, monks walk in procession to the river where they will scatter the powders of a mandala, an elaborate diagram drawn with colored sand. Dissolving the mandala in this way symbolizes the ephemeral nature of all phenomena. Bhutan, June 2006. Purchase online a professional quality photographic print, signed by the hand of Matthieu Ricard, buddhist monk, photographer and author. He has also been the French interpreter of His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama since 1989. Some of the photographs in his collection are printed in limited edition, signed, numbered and delivered with a certificate of authenticity.