You may have been tempted to draw a mandala or played with the thought of how to draw a mandala. There is no doubt that they are intriguing. They have amazed people for many years.
Mandalas can be seen in all walks of life. Be it mandala art or mandalas to colour in or one in everyday objects which you will see further on. What a mandala is can be a near impossible question to answer. The best way to kick off is by talking through the origin of the word and its first uses by human beings.
The word ‘Mandala’ is a Sanskrit term which can be put simply as circle. If you look further into the meaning a more specific interpretation is ‘an integrated structure organized around a unifying centre’. This is a interpretation more in tune with the mandalas you can discover in mandala art or that would make sense with what you would think of a mandala tattoo meaning.
most of the initial appearances known of the creation of a mandala by a person is Tibetan Buddhists mandalas. The word they used for the Buddhist mandala is ‘kyil-khor’. The Buddhist art of producing a mandala was frequently used to prepare for meditation. The mandala art they made would represent the reason for the meditation for that day. New points of focus within each topic of meditation required a new mandala so that the new mandala could be taken in meditation as a way of sinking into that way of thinking. The Buddhist mandala could also be found through the sand mandala. The Tibetan monks would take several weeks to create a carefully drawn mandala design in the sand and also use dye to add colour. When the sand mandala was finished they would disperse the sand into a river or water source to break up the mandala design to show respect of how life is only temporary while also blessing the water and showing how the end can also be a beginning.
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