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Tibetan monks spend days crafting intricate sand mandalas, then destroy them on purpose. American high-performance culture arrived at the same idea from the opposite direction. We talked to the people bridging the two worlds.
From Boston church ceilings to a Pennsylvania barn wall, radial designs are hiding in every corner of American life — we just walk past them at 45 miles an hour. Here are seven circles worth pulling over for.
The mandala traveled from ancient monasteries to the craft aisle of your local Target — a journey that has purists worried and skeptics converted. Is commercialization killing the practice, or is this just how mindfulness reaches the masses?