A picture of the Dalai Lama is seen Tuesday, May 1, 2018, behind Ven. Geshe Monlam Gyatso during a ceremony at Warren County Public Library Bob Kirby Branch. (Bac Totrong/photo@bgdailynews.com)

Tibetan monks will bring a Buddhist tradition that calls for world peace to Bowling Green.

Monks from the Drepung Gomang Monastery will demonstrate the symbolic, meditative process of creating a world peace sand mandala at the Warren County Public Library’s Bob Kirby Branch.

The process begins at noon Tuesday with an opening ceremony that will include chants, music and mantras, according to Laura Beth Fox-Ezell, the library’s educational delivery services coordinator. From there, the monks will work on the mandala until 7 p.m.

The monks will continue their work Wednesday and Thursday from noon to 7 p.m. and Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., she said.

The monks will draw the design of the mandala on a large, flat piece of wood before laying colored sand over the mandala, a design that symbolizes world peace, Fox-Ezell said. “It’s an act of meditation and prayer, but it’s also very intricate and beautiful,” she said.

At 10 a.m. Saturday at the Bob Kirby Branch, the monks will begin the closing ceremony, in which members of the public will be given some of the sand to take with them, Fox-Ezell said. The monks will then go to RiverWalk at Mitch McConnell Park, where they will pour the rest of the sand into the river, she said.

Fox-Ezell said she was excited that the library is able to give people in Bowling Green the chance to see the monks perform one of their traditions.

“I think it’s extremely valuable to be exposed to other cultures from around the world,” she said.

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