Tap dancing boy destroys Tibetan monks' meticulous sand design Sitting cross legged for two days a group of Tibetan monks carefully created an intricate sand design as an expression of their Buddhist faith.
However, an intervention, not of the divine variety, saw their efforts go to waste when a little boy who toddled into Kansas City's train station behind his mother spotted the display of coloured sand on the floor and could not resist. Slipping under a protective rope, he danced all over the sand, ruining the carefully crafted picture. "He did a little tap dance on it, completely destroying it," said Lama Chuck Stanford, of Kansas City's Rhime Buddhist Center. Sand dance: The intricate art work designed by Tibetan monks which was destroyed when a young boy tap danced on it They were more than halfway done with the design, called a mandala, on Tuesday when they ended their labours for the day and left. The little boy arrived sometime later with his mother, who was taking a parcel to the post office inside the vast hall. A surveillance camera caught the boy kicking the sand and destroying the work of the group of monks from the Drepung Gomang Monastery in southern India. "I think I would have been pretty darn angry about that and disappointed and say OK I'm done, I am not going to do anything more," said one man. The monks, however, did not appear to be too despondent and have set about repairing the damage, which they hope to complete by the end of the week. However, they did set up a proper barrier to avoid any further disappointmen
