Mandalas

Diamond Star

Blue Strokes

Lightquest

Japanese Mandala

Espirale

Look Into the
Light

Poppies

Black Lace

Sunflower

Steel Wheels

Spline

Mandala is a Sanskrit word that means "circle". In the Hindu and Buddhist religious traditions, their sacred art often takes a mandala form. The
basic form of most Hindu and Buddhist mandalas is a square with four gates containing a circle with a center point. Each gate is in the shape of a T.

These mandalas, concentric diagrams, have spiritual and ritual significance in both Buddhism and Hinduism. The term is of Hindu origin and appears
in the Rig Veda as the name of the sections of the work, but is also used in other Indian religions, particularly Buddhism. In the Tibetan branch of
Vajrayana Buddhism, mandalas have been developed into sandpainting.

In various spiritual traditions, mandalas may be employed for focusing attention of aspirants and adepts, as a spiritual teaching tool, for establishing
a sacred space, and as an aid to meditation and trance induction. It's symbolic nature can help one access progressively deeper levels of the
unconscious, ultimately assisting the meditator to experience a mystical sense of oneness with the ultimate unity from which the cosmos in all its
manifold forms arises.

In common use, mandala has become a generic term for any plan, chart or geometric pattern that represents the cosmos metaphysically or
symbolically, a microcosm of the Universe from the human perspective. I have used Mandala Painter 3 to digitally create this series."