• Losang Samten (Tibetan: བློ་བཟང་བསམ་གཏན།, Wylie: blo-bzang bsam-gtan) is a Tibetan-American scholar, sand mandala artist, former Buddhist monk...
  • Losang Samten is a Tibetan scholar and former Buddhist monk. He uses colored sand to build circular images called mandalas.
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  • Sand mandala (detail) by Losang Samten, 'Wheel of Life,' colored sand, 6' in circumference, Nevada Art Museum, 1999, courtesy Losang Samten.
  • Born in Tibet in 1953, Losang Samten escaped in 1959 and settled in India. In 1975, while studying in the Namgyal Monastery, he was chosen to enter a...
  • Venerable Lama Losang Samten says a prayer over his completed sand mandala on the last day of the Folklife Festival.
  • ...Together’s YouTube channel and googled this character of our sand artist, Losang Samten, only to discover how incredibly influential this man is in the world.
  • Losang Samten is a Tibetan sand mandala artist. As a teacher of meditation and as Spiritual Director of the Tibetan Buddhist Center of Philadelphia, he lives...
  • The Venerable Losang Samten, a renowned Tibetan scholar and a former Buddhist monk, was born in Chung Ribuce, of central Tibet.
  • Artist and Buddhist teacher Losang Samten was born in Tibet in 1953. In 1959, following Communist China’s occupation of Tibet, his family fled to Nepal.
  • When Losang Samten brought this gift to the United States, he was the first artist to create this mandala in sand in the United States.