It took twenty of them two weeks to finish. By the time they were finished, it measured almost seven feet across, one of the largest ones ever done in the West. Using a small metal funnel called a chak-pur, the Tibetan Buddhist monks used twenty bowls of colored sand to make their mandala depicting their view of the spiritual configuration of the universe.… Continue Reading
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VALUES
Doing some excavating on his North Carolina farm in 1799, Conrad Reed discovered a strange rock. Three years later, in 1802, a Fayetteville jeweler offered him $3.50 for the rock. It turned out that the rock was gold, and had a value of $3,600. This was the beginning of the Reed Gold Mine. In those three years before learning he had a large gold nugget, Reed had been using the rock as a doorstop.… Continue Reading