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	Mandalas - Crystalinks
		A mandala in tantric Buddhism usually depicts a landscape of the Buddha land or the enlightened vision of a Buddha.
		Mandalas are seen as sacred places which, by their very presence in the world, remind a viewer of the immanence of sanctity in the universe and its potential in himself.
		Mandalas are sometimes a variation of the dance shield used by the Plains Indians, influenced by the herders of the West.
	www.crystalinks.com /mandala.html (1300 words)

	Mandala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mandalas are seen as sacred places which, by their very presence in the world, remind a viewer of the immanence of sanctity in the universe and its potential in himself.
		In the West mandala is also used to refer to the "personal world" in which one lives, the various elements of the mandala being the activities and interests in which one engages, the most important being at the centre of the mandala, and the least important at the periphery.
		The Mandala as Sacred Geometry by Sri Nitin Kumar.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mandala (965 words)

	The Mandala- Buddhist Sacred Art
		Mandala, in Hindu and Buddhist Tantrism, is a symbolic diagram used in the performance of sacred rites and as an instrument of meditation.
		The Great Mandala (Maha Mandala), at which the presence of the deities from their respective areas are drawn in green, yellow, red, white and fl to represent "the earth, water, fire, wind and air".
		The Samaya mandala, at which the presence of the deities is shown not by the drawings of their images, but by those of the pearls, swords or wheels they carry so that the meditators may associates these objects with the images of the deities and practice visionary meditation.
	www.craftsinindia.com /indian-art-culture/buddha-mandalas.html (1414 words)

	Mandala - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The term mandala may be applied to various tangible objects, depending upon the particular religious practice that uses the term, especially as seen in Hinduism and Buddhism.
		A mandala can be used during meditation as an object for focusing the eyes on, especially the center of the mandala.
		The mandala in Nichiren Buddhism is called a moji-mandala (文字漫荼羅) and is a hanging paper scroll or wooden tablet whose inscription consists of Chinese characters and medieval-Sanskrit script representing elements of the Buddha's enlightenment, protective Buddhist dieties, and certain Buddhist concepts.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Mandala (874 words)

	Mandala of the Two Realms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The mandalas are thus considered a compact expression of the entirety of the Dharma in Mahayana Buddhism, and form the root of the Vajrayana teachings.
		Japanese Shingon temples, in particular, often prominently display the Mandalas of the Two Realms mounted at right angles to the image platform on the central altar.
		The two mandalas are believed to have evolved separately in India, and were joined together for the first time in China, perhaps by Kukai's teacher Huiguo.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mandala_of_the_Two_Realms (198 words)

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	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/two.html (3538 words)

	Wheel of Rebirth
		This is the only realm which one can become enlighten because of the balance of good/evil forces: Man can study the teaching of the Buddha (good influence) and the suffering (evil influences) serve as a motivation driving man to seek enlightenment.
		This realm is formed by the karma of the devoted (priests, monks, nuns, laymen, etc.) who harbored hate and jealousy.
		This realm is formed by the ill-karma of ignorance of sinners and criminals' animal-like instincts.
	www.geocities.com /directx_user/gallery/rebirth_wheel.htm (1035 words)

	Mandala -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A mandala can be used during ((religion) contemplation of spiritual matters (usually on religious or philosophical subjects)) meditation as an object for focusing the eyes on, especially the center of the mandala.
		In Hindu (The branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universe) cosmology the surface of the (The 3rd planet from the sun; the planet on which we live) earth is represented as a square, the most fundamental of all Hindu forms.
		On another level a mandala can be a symbolic representation of the universe, as in one of the four foundation practices of the (Click link for more info and facts about Vajrayana) Vajrayana, in which a mandala representing the universe is offered to the (Founder of Buddhism; worshipped as a god (c 563-483 BC)) Buddha.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/mandala.htm (965 words)

	Mandala (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The term mandala may be applied to various tangible objects, depending upon the particular religious practicethat uses the term, especially as seen in Hinduism and Buddhism.
		The Vaastu Purusha Mandala is the metaphysical plan of a building/ temple/ sitethat incorporates the course of the heavenly bodies and supernatural forces.
		One important type is the mandala of the "Five Buddhas", archetypal Buddha forms embodying various aspects of Enlightenment,the actual Buddhas depicted depending on the school of Buddhism and even the specific purpose of the mandala.
	www.therfcc.org /mandala-5938.html (576 words)

	Mandala of the Two Realms -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Mandala of the Two Realms ((Click link for more info and facts about Jp) Jp.
		The Diamond Realm represents the unchanging cosmic principle of the Buddha, while the Womb Realm depicts the active, physical manifestation of Buddha in the natural world.
		Japanese (A form of Buddhism emphasizing mystical symbolism of mantras and mudras and the Buddha's ideal which is inexpressible) Shingon temples, in particular, often prominently display the Mandalas of the Two Realms mounted at right angles to the image platform on the central altar.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/mandala_of_the_two_realms.htm (126 words)

	The Tibetan Map of Humans and The Cosmos
		The four cosmic mandalas have structural connections to the body that are similar to the body/palace parallels.
		The four gates entering into the mandala are painted in the color that corresponds to their direction in the human body: yellow for the west, red to the south, white for the north, and the eastern gate is fl.
		Furthermore, the chakras of the body are symbolic of deities, mandala levels, and sacred lotus flowers, which are conceptual connections between the spiritual structure in the body and the religious values of the palace details.
	people.colgate.edu /jpark/tibet/mandalas.htm (4133 words)

	Mandara (Mandala) in Japan - The Ryokai, Daimond World, and Womb World Mandalas
		Mandala scrolls and paintings became popular in Japan in the 9th century with the growth of the Shingon and Tendai Sects of Esoteric Buddhism, which arose in part as a reaction against the power and wealth of court-sponsored Buddhism.
		The mandala on the east side is the Kongoukai Mandala, and the mandala on the west side is the Taizoukai Mandala.
		Mandalas considered to be from the Tendai lineage, such as the Shiten'noji Mandala and the Taisanji Mandala, are clearly from a non-Genzu lineage.
	www.onmarkproductions.com /html/mandala1.shtml (2150 words)

	Revisiting the Relationship Between the MBTI and the Enneagram
		The emergence of mandala figures (and other related symbols) is the psyche's way of attempting to contain and deal with the forces that are unleashed in the course of the process of self-actualization as it unfolds in the life of the individual.
		But in the meta-psychological system that these two men shared, the intrapersonal topographical entity coterminous with the individual's conscious experience is the 'Ego' and experiences that stand outside of the scope of the explicit awareness of the individual are understood, by definition, to be 'unconscious' ones beyond the purview of the Ego.
		It is the purpose of the visual mandala to hint at those profound organizational forms that permit one to avoid this pitfall and maintain a manifest form in the mundane world, even while maintaining awareness of the infinite nature of the sacred center.
	tap3x.net /EMBTI/j4selfb.html (4744 words)

	The Mandala - Sacred Geometry and Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Both broadly define mandalas as geometric designs intended to symbolize the universe, and reference is made to their use in Buddhist and Hindu practices.
		For larger sized Mandalas, when the mandala is about halfway completed, the monks then stand on the floor, bending forward to apply the colors.
		The fact that the monks traditionally sweep away their mandalas the instant that they are completed may suggest that they do this to emphasize the ephemeral nature of any one pattern, as experienced in the rapidly changing vision.
	www.exoticindiaart.com /article/mandala (3014 words)

	Sacred Geometry Mandala Art
		Mandalas act as a bridge between the higher and lower realms.
		For thousands of years, mandala imagery has served as a means to an expanded way of thinking.
		It is a universal relationship that exists between two elements of an equation in a natural situation.
	www.isibrno.cz /~gott/mandalas.htm (697 words)

	Elias Martin's Mandala Essay
		Since Mandala B represents Samsara, the flame should also be understood as a guardian deity, however, this deity prevents the initiate from escaping the confines of the grounds.
		In addition to both mandalas as seen as a karmic manifestation of one's one unique karmic composition, there are various other connections these mandalas attempt to make between the body of the initiate and their own mandala framework.
		Within the framework of both mandalas, it is in this stage where, the initiates have the choice of either refining their own material nature to the extent of these guardian deities, and in turn become one, or reject the refinement of their material nature for further progress into the mandala.
	condor.depaul.edu /~dgitomer/Yoga%20and%20Tantra/eliasessayAQ99.html (2861 words)

	Ganden Lha Gyäma Commentary - Mandala Offering
		When you offer the mandala just as an offering you begin with the eastern side towards the merit field; when you are requesting for realizations—before the requesting prayer to the lineage lamas—you have east facing yourself and start with that heap.
		After you finish setting up the mandala there are two ways to hold it: in order to eliminate obstacles you face the mandala towards the merit field, but in order to receive realizations you face it towards yourself.
		You can relate it to the deity to whom you are offering the mandala; that creates the karma for you to be born in that pure realm.
	www.lamayeshe.com /lamazopa/glg/mandala.shtml (5582 words)

	The Integral Sphere: A Mathematical Mandala of Reality, by Thomas J McFarlane
		This exchanges subtle and gross realms of manifestation, and the same interpretation discussed in relation to the circle mandala applies to the sphere as well: degrees of subtlety are mirrored by degrees of concreteness, with higher concreteness corresponding to higher subtlety.
		The analog of circles of longitude in the three-dimensional spherical mandala are "spheres of longitude" on the four-dimensional spherical mandala.
		However, when the mandala was generalized to higher dimensions, it became evident to the author that the added dimension could be interpreted so that the planar projection of the sphere would generate a mandala very similar to the AQAL model.
	www.integralscience.org /sphere.html (11805 words)

	Ken Wilber and Sri Aurobindo: A Critical Perspective
		And whereas, for a very few, the Mother was, and still is, the portal to subtle superconsciousness, the way to transcend the personality, she was for most that terrible form of inertia which prevented the emergence, out of the uroboros and typhon, of a truly strong personality.
		Thus, there are two major bardos or "in betweens" – one occurs as a series of temporal events lasting up to 49 days after physical death, and the other occurs now, moment to moment.
		In a sense, the whole of creation may be said to be a movement between two involutions, Spirit in which all is involved and out of which all evolves downward to the other pole of Matter, Matter in which all is involved and out of which all evolves upwards to the other pole of Spirit.
	www.infinityfoundation.com /mandala/i_es/i_es_hemse_wilber.htm (11926 words)

	Windhorse Gallery - Sacret Art of Tibet
		The mandala, sanskrit for 'circle', is one of the most important of all spiritual symbols and is often painted on the Tibetan thangka.
		The mandala is a two dimensional image based on the three dimensional geomantic structure known as the 'chorten' or 'stupa'.
		A mandala is a form of concentric circles that represents all aspects of the universe.
	www.windhorsegallery.com /articles.html (2385 words)

	The Peaceful Prison
		I first learned about precepts about two weeks into my Dharma career when, during the third Kopan course (my first) back in 1972, we all had to take them for the last half of the one-month course.
		The reason for taking precepts is that to gain the wisdom-realizing emptiness, the essence of the Buddha’s teachings, we need perfect concentration, and to gain that we need to live a disciplined life: to practice morality.
		Of these, the teachings that had the greatest impact on me were those on the perfect human rebirth, where Rinpoche emphasized that of the freedoms and luxuries of a perfect human rebirth, some of the most significant were those that allowed the practitioner to take precepts.
	www.mandalamagazine.org /2006/june/peaceful_prison.asp (690 words)

	Lalita Tripurasundari, the Red Goddess
		This mandala represents the enclosing walls or fence of the zonule of a practitioner.
		In between the mandalas of eight triangles and the central triangles are the four weapons of the Red Goddess -- flowery bow, flowery arrows, noose and goad.
		A close examination of the details relating to the nine mandalas of Shri Yantra reveals that the shaktis of the whole circle represent the human being, who, in potential, is Shakti-Shiva united.
	www.religiousworlds.com /mandalam/tripura.htm (6814 words)

	The Star Mandala
		Mandalas are a kind of Buddhist painting that are especially common in the Esoteric sect of Buddhism, which has many secret, mystical rituals.
		The mandala with the most images is called the "Mandala of the Two Realms." It depicts all the gods and Buddhas in the Buddhist pantheon!
		The upper section of the mandala is darker in color than the lower section, but this is because for years it hung in a smoky temple.
	www.kyohaku.go.jp /eng/dictio/data/kaiga/mandara.htm (712 words)

	Earthbound - near-death experiences
		While hell realms can be seen outside all around the world as a manifestation of an inner hell within humans, hell realms in the spirit world are an even greater manifestation of inner hell within humans.
		Between the earth realm and the heavenly realms, there exists two hellish realms known as (1) the earthbound realm and (2) the void.
		The earthbound realm is a hellish dimension that overlaps the physical realm.
	www.near-death.com /experiences/research14.html (6479 words)

	Five Wisdom Buddhas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Buddhas inhabit the Diamond Realm and are a common subject of Vajrayana mandalas.
		There are a huge number of associations with each figure, so that the mandala becomes a cipher for remembering, and understanding the whole of the Dharma.
		The Five Wisdom Buddhas are protected by the Five Wisdom Kings, and in Japan are frequently depicted together in the Mandala of the Two Realms.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/five_wisdom_buddhas (296 words)

	Bonnie Bell - Mandala Blessings: Art that Heals and Transforms - Feature Article on Sacred Signs, Symbols, and Meaning
		Mandalas convey that harmony is possible, even in times of chaos and challenge.
		As she walked away with the mandala in her backpack, we were very grateful to have been there.
		Mandalas are created to shine this blessing-force, and it fulfills their purpose when you use them as a vibrant resource.
	www.soulfulliving.com /mandala_blessings.htm (2437 words)

	Taima Mandala/ Explanation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Of the three mandalas under discussion, the Taima Mandala is the oldest and best-known.
		The original Taima Mandala was a large tapestry of about 13 feet in height and width and is now hardly discernible, but later copies made in reduced sizes, show its general composition and details.
		What is special about this mandala is that in the upper margin it bears two Chinese hymns composed by Dokutan (1628-1706), a Chinese native who came to Japan with Ingen, the founder of the Obaku school of the Zen sect, and became the fourth abbot of the Manpukuji at Uji.
	www12.canvas.ne.jp /horai/con-ex.htm (3715 words)

	The Real Aspect of the Gohonzon
		After the Buddha's death, in the two thousand years of the Former and Middle Days of the Law, not even the term "object of worship of the essential teaching" was mentioned, let alone the object itself being inscribed.
		Therefore this Gohonzon is the supreme mandala never before known, for it has not appeared until more than twenty-two hundred and twenty years after the Buddha's death.
		Mandala is a Sanskrit word meaning "perfectly endowed" or "cluster of blessings." The Gohonzon is found in faith alone.
	www.sgi-usa.org /buddhism/library/Nichiren/Gosho/RealAspectGohonzon.htm (1222 words)

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