Note: Please note that the actual colors of the thangka displayed may vary due to differences in monitor color depth and make. The color in the display is as close as to the actual colors of the Thangka Painting. Dimension measured are excluding the borders.
Round Mandala-17
$100.00
- In all cultures, humans have tried a lot to order their relationships with the cosmos & to systematize nature & the natural phenomena around them.Relationships with the
cosmos can be most clearly seen in the mandala . - Mandala literally means “magic circle”or “ring “.
- In practice it is a geometric pattern of squares & concentric circles as a projection of the cosmos.
- A temple floor plan can be seen as a duplicate of this projection .This concentrization
of an idea is strongly developed in the stupa .A stupa is an architectonic ,three
dimensional rendering of the universe. - The stupa is the symbol of death,namely of conquering death,thus escaping samsara.
- On a two dimensional mandala ,the same thing happens,although one takes a visual, rather than physical,walk to the core of understanding.From the outside of the
presentation the beleiver moves by way of the depicted group of deities toward
the center of the mandala where the major deity or a symbol is the ultimate goal. - like the stupa, a mandala is a psychogram.Originally the mandala was a cosmogram.
- The mandala also represents the distintegration & then reintegration of one’s own consciousness.
- Believers can also identify with the goal by way of yoga.Instead of making use of an aid
that has physical form,like a thangka or an image of a deity,one can take one’s own body as
the point of departure to attain unity with the divine . - By means of concentrated energy rising up along the spine,one attains the apothesis of the process of union in a lotus shapes mandala at the crown of one’s head.This is where light breaks through the spiritual darkness.This thought behind this is that, according to the tantras,humans are vessels full of ignorance ,but also vessels with a divine spark in their most profound depths.It is invisible due to the darkness of ignorance, but is the same as the heavenly essence .
- Yoga means linking ,thinking of body & spirit or spirit & cosmos.
- Still another symbol of this union is combining the vajra & ghanta.
