Mandala

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Patrick_D
Posted on Aug 10, 2008 by Patrick_D
This is called a Mandala... Here you go VG. :-) Mandala From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Buddhist mandalaFind more about Mandala on Wikipedia's sister projects: Dictionary definitions Textbooks Quotations Source texts Images and media News stories Learning resources Mandala (Sanskrit maá¹á¸ala मà¤à¤¡ "essence" + ल "having" or "containing". It is also translated as "circle-circumference" or "completion", both derived from the Tibetan term dkyil khor). Mandala is of Hindu origin, the term being used for the books of the Rig Veda.[citation needed] but is also used in other Indian religions such as Buddhism. In the Tibetan branch of Vajrayana Buddhism, mandalas have been developed into sandpainting. They are also a key part of anuttarayoga tantra meditation practices. In various spiritual traditions, mandalas may be employed for focusing attention of aspirants and adepts; as a spiritual teaching tool; for establishing a sacred space; and as an aid to meditation and trance induction. According to David Fontana, its symbolic nature can help one "to access progressively deeper levels of the unconscious, ultimately assisting the meditator to experience a mystical sense of oneness with the ultimate unity from which the cosmos in all its manifold forms arises." [1] The psychoanalyst Carl Jung saw the mandala as "a representation of the unconscious self,"[2] and believed his paintings of mandalas enabled him to identify emotional disorders and work towards wholeness in personality.[3] In common use, mandala has become a generic term for any plan, chart or geometric pattern that represents the cosmos metaphysically or symbolically, a microcosm of the Universe from the human perspective. Beautiful Mandala, haha! Thank you
VG59
Posted on Feb 28, 2008 by VG59
That is real pretty. Before I opened it I thought it might have been quilting or tapestry. It looks like stained glass but then the background looks like marble. So what is it?
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