| While travelling in India and Nepal, Ellis became interested in the Buddhist mandalas and prayer flags. |
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| The person who achieved it was not a famous master but an itinerant stonecarver of mandalas and sacred texts. |
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| The drawing of mandalas or yantras in the high traditions, floor and wall paintings by women in folk traditions, all display a magical structure. |
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| Brainstorming sessions involved exploring symbolism from around the world and through the ages, mandalas, alchemy and assorted arcana. |
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| Since the construction of the first mandala in the west, many mandalas have been created all over the world. |
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| In contrast, the tantric meditations on mandalas and deities might seem mysterious, and we may find them more appealing. |
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| In Champagne, for example, spirals, mandalas and other circular designs are stacked on a vertical support. |
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| And sacred symbols, from cave paintings to mandalas, are as old as the struggle to understand our world. |
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| Since ancient times, mandalas were used as a means of deepening and enhancing the meditative experience. |
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| I've seen the mandalas and lights and patterns of delirium and drug trips, watched the shamans in their trances during field research. |
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| That's the oversized mandalas he's speaking about, the ones he created in New York. |
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| According to Buddhist scripture, mandalas constructed from sand transmit positive energies to the environment and to the people who view them. |
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| Then on Saturday and Sunday, June 19-20, there will be a full program of Tibetan culture, meditation, sand mandalas and activities for the kids. |
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| Decorated with psychedelic medallions and mandalas of red, yellow, and green, a high wall delimits the compound. |
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| In a dream state, you can generate mandalas, deity-forms, or thousands of replicas of yourself to perform rituals, etc. |
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| There are various forms of mandalas with distinct concepts and different purposes. |
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| Some cloud formations resembled mandalas while others looked like curling white scarves. |
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| Pousette-Dart's blowzy spirituality is a trial, what with the cornball mandalas and hieroglyphs. |
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| That is, its cosmic body appears in a mandalic pattern, as represented in the mandalas used in Shingon ritual. |
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| Their shrines at Ise were identified with the two mandalas used to represent the dual nature of Dainichi. |
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| There are hundreds of different mandalas depending upon which initiations are given. |
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| The basic form of most Hindu and Buddhist mandalas is a square with four gates containing a circle with a center point. |
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| These mandalas still exist at various places throughout this world, such as in the twenty-four holy places. |
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| This mandala was once part of a set of mandalas illustrating Annuttarayoga teachings. |
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| The three beads at the head, shell, pearl and coral, represent the union of two mandalas. |
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| It has pairs of large moody mandalas on each wall that loom and seem to spin, exuding a strong energy that creates an extraordinary zone of centeredness, stillness and power. |
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| This explains the Egyptian reliance on hierograms, the Vedic preference for mandalas and yantras, the Druidical oral tradition and the Gnostic Tarot. |
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| Devotion is also important in some Buddhist traditions, and in the Tibetan traditions visualizations of deities and mandalas are important. |
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| In tantric Buddhism, through their polymorphism as cosmic diagrams, mandalas have substantial artistic power and a high degree of spiritual energy with high symbolic value. |
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| The mandalas of these different cultures and the children's faces become the recurring theme of the show, suggesting that under this apparent diversity appears a deep unity. |
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| Tibetan traditional medicine uses mandalas such as this to explain the relationship between the five elements that were believed to make up the body. |
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| March 15 2015 March 17 201515 The New York auction circuit embarks on a week of Asian art sales, a category encompassing everything from Himalayan mandalas to Ming bowls. |
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| Although Tibetan Buddhist scriptures and ceremonial mandalas are cited in the catalog as influences, these kooky wrap-ups remind you of surrealist tableaus, or early Christo. |
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| In the esoteric tradition that Kûkai inherited from Hui-kuo, there are two major mandalas that depict the hosshin in two different mandalic forms. |
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| The collection of the museum is one of the best and most complete in the world with its tangkas illustrating the lamas, the wrathful deities, the mandalas or the celestial guardians. |
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| The mandalas are concentric geometric shapes symbolizing layers of external world, gates and sacred space. |
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