- The word mandala comes from what language?
Hindu and Buddhist
- When translated, mandala means … “disk
- What do they look like? A circle with a flower or some type of pattern
- How are mandalas used in Hindu and Buddhist traditions? a spiritual and ritual symbol in Indian religions, representing the universe. In common use, “mandala” has become a generic term for any diagram, chart or geometric pattern that represents the cosmos metaphysically or symbolically; a microcosm of the universe
- Celtic Spiral
- Celtic Knot
- Christian Rose Window
- Hindu Yantras
- Labyrinth
- Native American Dream catcher
- Tibetan Sand Mandalas
- Mayan calendar
- Who was Carl J. Jung? He was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of the school of psychology. He developed the concepts of the extroverted and introverted personality and the collective unconscious
- Why did he have his patients draw mandalas?
” According to Jung, “In such cases it is easy to see how the severe pattern imposed by a circular image of this kind compensates the disorder of the psychic state– namely through the construction of a central point to which everything is related, or by a concentric arrangement of the disordered multiplicity and of contradictory and irreconcilable elements. This is evidently an attempt at self-healing on the part of Nature, which does not spring from conscious reflection but from an instinctive impulse.”
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