By Stephanie Nicotra Walking into the lobby of Carruth Rizza Hall this past week, one would see several men dressed in red robes, hear a metallic scraping and possibly the low hum of prayers. Seven monks, one American and the others of Tibetan descent and one translator from the Gaden Shartse Monastery in Mundgod, India, [...]

By LISA KAPPS Observer-Dispatch In the lobby of the Hamilton College’s Emerson Gallery, four Tibetan monks stood over a small, square table with intense concentration as they used cone-shaped metal funnels and thin rods to guide colored sands into intricate patterns of symmetry. Gradually, the sand – which actually was finely ground white rock that [...]