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The word Mandala is derived from Sanskrit language; its literal meaning is pious or holy or a magical wheel. Mandala paintings are well known and taught in academic from early stages. The mandala has been a symbolic creation of the temple of an almighty since a long back. The design of mandala painting contains an intricate and comprehensive literature, and it allows a student to learn a particular way of tantras.
Many psychologists conclude that any drawing, painting or any other artwork reflects inner feelings and thoughts of a human being. The drawing of the circles or the wheels directly reflects one’s inner ideas. Also, the feelings can be judged by these drawings. Many psychologists feel that the mandala was a person who had been driven by a gentle and strong feeling. He had immense inner potential that carried out this artwork, initially. Mandala believed that the total personality of a person is his individuation.The attention to the wheels or the circles can unconsciously enhance the speed of growth and reasoning of a person. Mandala paintings are created after a feeling of getting in touch with self. The painting is created during course of meditation. Mandala painting can be created at the best while listening sweet music or listening a chattering of birds in a silence zone. Basically these are the sources of meditation and it is the right place where mandala painting is created.
A mandala painting is a traditional and spiritual teaching of Buddhists. Basically it is a tool to heal and also an artwork that is created after coloring sand. The process of mandala is hand-sketched design on a plane surface or on a platform after having a ritual prayer and blessing from a deity. The sketched design on the sand surface is colored as per individual’s choice. In the process of drawing these painting, sand is poured by the monks through a metallic funnel to create this artwork. It is necessary that sand be evenly dropped over the flat surface. This is done with the help of funnel and meditations say dhyana.
The prepared sand painting it is put on exhibition to give thought about mandala in turn learns his symbolism. After day or two, a closing ceremony of the exhibition is held, where the sand is collected in a specific order and preserved in a container. The container in jar shape is said to be blessed and part of sand sent to the mandala town, at the place of creation of mandala. The remaining sand is immersed into a river, intending that the blessed sand be merged into seawater to heal everyone.
People create their own painting. It is not necessary to be a Buddhist to create the artwork, though it is a Buddhist ritual artwork. The materials required to create this art are fine sand, edible color, painting dye and spoon, a funnel. A funnel is made out of any tube shaped thing. To settle the sand evenly, a sort of shaking device is used to roughen the surface on the funnel.
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