In what is becoming an annual tradition during peace week at Friends Academy, Buddhist monk Lama Tenzin Yignyen was invited back to the Locust Valley school to create a sand mandala and teach students about his philosophies and ideas. The mandala, which takes five days to create, is dismantled and tossed into Oyster Bay at the end of the week.
Photographer: Chris Ware
Editor: Jeffrey Basinger