Cookie Mandalas: Impermanence in Comparative Religions

Arts and humanities instructor Katherine Riley recaps a recent (delicious!) lesson. Students in Comparative Religion class have been studying, in turn, six major religious traditions (Indigenous, Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism and Islam). As we studied Buddhism, we investigated the concept of anitya (impermanence), which informs all Buddhist understanding of reality. The making of mandalas can …