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I mandala, segrete "mappe" del Mondo, i tanka, e il profugo tibetano Choi

A Tibetan mandala designed by Choi. To see enlarged, click here .
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design ritual and symbolic paintings have a deep meaning in both Buddhism and Hinduism. The tanka (or even tangka t'aenghwa, depending on the transliterations) is a typical Tibetan Buddhist devotional painting in Tibet, but carried out in Mongolia in Beijing and elsewhere in China, and not Tibetan. These votive images, large or small, very similar to ours, for example, of large paintings or frescoes from the Middle Ages to the present day are usually behind the altar or along the aisles of the Catholic churches. See as examples the current t'aenghwa ancient Buddhist tradiziione Korea (formerly Chinese empire) included in the essay shown Henrik H. Sorensen. The
mandala is a graphics instead symmetrical. Truly it is also a symbolic term associated with the culture and especially the Veda collection of hymns or books called Rig Veda. But "mandala" in its most famous (literally, circle, according to some) is now known throughout the world in another meaning, the fact of complex graphics, a design for the more symmetrical and circular - on paper using colors and lines, but also on the sand - made many graphic designing and understanding children, including several, tiny geometric shapes such as triangles, circles and squares .
And anyone who has worked in anthropology, knowing a little on the mentality of the ancients in all cultures, he felt that this representation was to originally have a value cosmogonic, to mean the circularity of the World, that is, the Universe, according to the knowledge of the time. If not for the mandala represents the Buddhists, the process by which the cosmos was formed from its center. In short, a mandala originally wanted to be, no less, a map of the Earth and devotional ritual, certainly by the various sub-meanings still unknown.
Modern astronomers agree on this sort of initial explosion (Big Bang). Then of course, the layers added to the religious mandala symbols, allegories and allusions that today only ultra-specialists are able to grasp.
Although extreme spiritualists maintain that nothing is a drawing material, and that the true mandala can be only mental images are physical nevertheless to build the "real mandala" interior, which is formed in the mind.
In other words, the stylized, colorful and symbolic that we Westerners like greatly to its aesthetic elegance, was originally seen as a sort of guide, map, almost - forgive me the combination, but it serves to understand - a "Snakes" intellectual and ritual that allowed the initiation journey .
The consideration of the mandala is the Hindu yantra (lit. instrument). It 'like the mandala, but much more schematic, but merely to use geometric shapes and letters in Sanskrit, while in the mandala are also represented - sometimes so detailed - places, figures and objects.
And by the way, the same symbol Ayurveda reproduced in this blog under the header, left, is basically a mandala.
As the West "secular", we are fascinated by the radial symmetry. Maybe it is ancestral memories (of the Sun and the Moon?), The fact is that men have always been attracted to the round shape, unconsciously equated to a perfect shape even when it is denied by modern graphics, or inserted in a square, in turn, considered for other reasons, another perfect shape.
In fact, even today, the mandalas are very popular, even belong to it - from the sixties onwards - the small Consumerism disciplines "alternative." Stationers across the world are sold even books for children with many forms of simple mandala coloring.
And by the way, we like to remember the show Dam Choi Lama, a Tibetan exile, not surprisingly devoted, entitled "Mandala Thangka and" , held here at Bibliothè, unfortunately in the middle of summer (from 22 July to 5 August), and then went almost unnoticed. Born in the mountains of Himalayan
Kavre in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, Tibetan parents fled from Tibet because the Chinese invasion, Choi is a monaco Tibetan Buddhist thangka and mandala artist. One of his wonderful mandala colorful and densely stained it is reproduced here with a magnified image, to be able to see the complex watermark.