Monks at Lamayuru monastery, Ladakh creating a mandala of coloured sand. Lamayouro, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India. A sand mandala is ritualistically dismantled once it has been completed and its accompanying ceremonies and viewing are finished to symbolise the Buddhist doctrinal belief in the transitory nature of material life.

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Location: India, Ladakh, Lamayouro, Lamayuru monastery
Photo credit: © J Marshall / Alamy / Afripics
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