Buddhist Monks in Frost Library

Evelyn Kramer Student Contributor, Amherst College

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Amherst chapter and does not reflect the views of Her Campus.

Last week two Tibetan Buddhist Monks from a monastery in upstate New York created a sand mandala in Frost library. Sand mandalas are symbols of impermanence. The monks dispose of the sand in a body of water once they have finished the mandala. Impermanence is a pretty nice thing to be thinking about right now, in the middle of midterms!

Evelyn Kramer

Amherst

Evelyn is the Editor-in-Chief of the Amherst branch of Her Campus. She was a features intern at Seventeen Magazine during the summer of 2011 and a features intern at Glamour Magazine during the summer of 2013. She is a French and English major in the class of 2014 at Amherst College. She is also on Amherst's varsity squash team. She is an aspiring travel writer/novelist, and loves running, ice cream, and Jane Austen.

Buddhist Monks in Frost Library

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