50,000 Londoners Engage with Buddhist Film Festival as Sand Mandala Ritual Brings South Bank to a Standstill.
A major public Buddhist ritual on London’s South Bank has helped establish the Buddhist Film Festival as a new cultural fixture in the capital, after more than 50,000 people engaged with a live sand mandala installation at Oxo Gallery, Oxo Tower Wharf.
Across five days, from 17–21 June 2026, three senior visiting Tibetan monks created an intricate sand mandala by hand inside Oxo Gallery, using finely coloured sand placed grain by grain in a centuries-old Buddhist practice.
