At some point you may have had the notion to draw a mandala or asked yourself the question how to draw a mandala. There is no doubt that they are intriguing. They have fascinated artists for many years.
Mandalas are in all walks of life. You may see a mandala drawing or a yoga mandala or one in architecture which I will explore later on. What a mandala is can be a difficult question to resolve. The best way to start is by talking through the etymology of the term and its first uses by human beings.
The term ‘Mandala’ is a Sanskrit word which can be put simply as circle. If you look further into the meaning a more detailed interpretation is ‘an integrated structure organized around a unifying centre’. This is a interpretation more similar to the mandala you may see in mandala designs or that would fit what you might think of mandala tattoos meaning.
most of the first appearances we know of us humans creating mandalas is Tibetan Buddhists mandalas. Their word for the Buddhist mandala is ‘kyil-khor’. The Buddhist art of making a mandala was mainly used to prepare for meditation. The mandala art they made would be the point of focus of 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 gateway to that way of thinking. The Buddhist mandala could also be found through the sand mandala. The Buddhist monks would spend weeks in order to make a carefully drawn piece of mandala art in the sand and add colour. After the sand mandala was complete they would afterwards scatter the sand into the water to destroy the piece of mandala art to acknowledge the way life is is also not permanent while also giving blessing to the water and continuing the cycle of the mandala.
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