This article examines the mandala - a symbolic picture of the universe. One of the richest visual objects in Tibetan Buddhism is the mandala. A mandala is a symbolic picture of the universe.

KAREN HUMPHRIES SALLICK (Tibetan Buddhist Practitioner): The mandala is a teaching and meditation tool so that we can focus on evoking in ourselves the Buddha nature that we Buddhists believe you ...

associate professor of religion at Oxford College. “And I hope they learned something about rituals in general.” While the mandala met its end during the ritual, the destruction itself was ...

But, even here, pictures drove the religion’s expansion and begat other pictures. Kings commissioned mandalas to clinch future success; after they won the battle or survived the plague ...

Mandalas often represent imaginary places contemplated during meditation and have strong geometric components. In religious art, the mandala is used to symbolize wholeness—the circle of eternity.

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A recent book, “Creating Mandalas With Sacred Geometry,” by ... Pythagorean theorem and the golden ratio were used to explain religious principals. Fincher explains that the concept of zero ...

Buddhist monks from Drepung Gomang Monastery in India construct a Medicine Buddha sand mandala for mental (inner) and physical health. Buddhist monks from Drepung Gomang Monastery in India ...

A centuries-old Buddhist model of the universe has new meaning for the shortest of days and longest of worries. By Holland Cotter The Metropolitan Museum of Art is, in these darkest days of ...

One of the richest visual objects in Tibetan Buddhism is the mandala. A mandala is a symbolic picture of the universe. It can be a painting on a wall or scroll, created in coloured sands on a ...