Tibetan Kalachakra Mandala Thangka Handmade in Nepal

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Mandala (Literally Meaning a circle) is a Tantric meditation device. It is a visual aid for concentration and introversive meditation leading to the attainment of insights and to activation of forces culminating in “Siddhi” supernatural forces. The mandala is the graphic representation of this process. It is not only theoretical but practical as an operational scheme involving a clear plan for practical realization of the process within oneself.

Kalachakra Mandala:

It is reported that in the year after Buddha Shakyamuni attained Enlightment, he was asked by King Chandrabhadra of Shambhala to teach the Kalachakratantra. The Buddha manifested himself in the form of the Kalachakra meditational deity in south India and gave the full teaching and initiation of this tantra. The Kalachakra teaching was then transmitted through a lineage of seven kings and 25 propagators.

The mandala of Kalachakra has three major squares and corresponding entrance gates. The mandala has been elaborated described in Nispannayogavali of Abhayakaragupta. The mandala, according to Nispannayogavali, has more than seven hundred deities standing or seated holding various emblems. There are 2 ways of presenting Kalachakra. The first one is to represent all the deities in the proper order according to the text and while the other it to depict the mandala on symbols of animals, flowers.