Mandala

Mandala is a term Sanskrit meaning circle, and by extension, sphere, environment, community. Since it indicates before all the crowned entourage of a Déité, it is still preferable to call Yantra more stylized representations. The diagram symbolic system of the mandala can then be used as support of Méditation. Some mandalas, very elaborate and codified, become semi-figurative, semi-abstract about it.

In the Vajrayāna

The meditation of the mandala itself consists of a very sharp and detailed visualization of a deity (Yidam) and associated secondary deities, called its assembly, with the postures, gestures (Mudrā S) and symbolic systems objects prescribed. The practitioner follows usually a liturgy, repeats the Mantra S of them and carries out of it the mudrās, the whole allowing him to incarnate the heart and waked up qualities of the yidam, i.e. of a Bouddha, a Bodhisattva, or of the Master (Guru) which initiated it, like integrating the prospect for the Vacuité. The ultimate goal of this practice is to see in all things a Field-of-Buddha (Buddhakshetra) and in the deity or the guru the demonstration of its clean innate wisdom, called yeshé or Rigpa in Tibetan.

One calls mandala interior the anatomy of the body subtle or etheric, allowing the control of the breaths (Prāna S), of the channels (nādīs), the drops (bindus), and the famous centers of conscience, or wheels of energy called Chakra S. This whole of practices, connected with the Hatha- and Kundalini- Hindu yoga, is known under the name of Six yogas of Nāropa. They spiritualize the body by making some an instrument of realization. In the Vajrayāna, one calls stage of creation, or generation, the practice of the external mandala, and stage of achievement, or perfection, the practice of the interior mandala. Both large mandalas of Vajrayāna Shingon are the Kongôkaï and the Taïzôkaï and gather them also many Buddhist Déité S symbolizing respectively the aspects Yáng and Yin of the fundamental bouddheity. Laid out in several districts, the deities express the compassion, softness, others the intelligence, the understanding, others still energy, the force to overcome all the negative aspects of the subconscious samsaric.

The offering of Mandala

August 1st One distinguishes four levels from offering of the mandala,

  • External

  • Interior
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  • Secret
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  • Very secret, or of Nature-in-the Esprit.
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This current division also applies to the lesson text the, upon reading and various transmissions of being able (sank. Abhisheka; tib. dbang).

Finally there exists a Mudrā of the offering of the mandala, where:

  • 1 - the auricular ones cross and their ends touch the ends of the inches of the other hand,
  • 2 - the two annular ones “naturally” is thus stuck, one point them to the top so that they come to be based on the inches,
  • 3 - finally the indices touch the major opposite ones while crossing.

Sand Tibetan Mandala

The construction of the mandala is in itself a spiritual practice. In the room of other monks meditate and request in order to reinforce the Bodhicitta and thus to bless the mandala, which will be offered to the Buddhas and the Universe. >
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