The Dawei King Kong Mandala was created in 1991 by monks from the Gelug sect at the Minneapolis Museum of Art in the United States. This mandala is made of colored silicate and adhesive on wood. Mandala is a visual representation of the Buddhist universe, used for meditation and enlightenment rituals. The process of making mandalas takes four weeks and is sanctified through prayer, ritual music, and performance.

Mandala, belonging to the Solanaceae family and the genus Mandala, is an annual tropical herbaceous plant with broad hairy leaves and irregular wavy shallow toothed edges; Flowers grow solitary between branches or leaf axils, upright, with short stems; The sepals are cylindrical lobes triangular in shape, with a color of white or light purple; The fruit is capsule shaped and egg shaped, with a light yellow color; Mandala blooms from June to October. The name Mandala comes from the transliteration of the Sanskrit word mandala, so it can also be called "Manchala" or "Mannara". Mandala is toxic throughout the plant and contains scopolamine, which has functions such as antispasmodic, sedative, analgesic, and anesthetic. Mandala extract is used for the treatment of heart failure, ventricular arrhythmia, and angina pectoris.