World of Mandala Audiobook (Free)

“Mandala” is an ancient Sanskrit word meaning “sacred circle that protects the soul.” It also identifies the sacred cosmograms that serve as core symbols of all ethnicities. Westerners have already been fascinated for centuries about the mandalas from the Hindu-Buddhist civilizations of Asia, frequently coated geometric diagrams of great beauty and sophistication, that pull the viewer right into a realm of balance, tranquility, and relaxed. But such diagrams are actually architectural blueprints from the purified realm of about World of Mandala bliss that we can only understand through enlightenment. They symbolize three-dimensional areas of personal and communal exaltation, palaces for the regal self-confidence of like, compassion, and universal satisfaction of personal and additional. Understanding their function in anchoring the world-picture of a lifestyle or a person provides a fresh insight in to the “mandalas” of our very own tradition – the national space anchored with the Washington monument and its environs, or the non-public cosmological space anchored from the models of the solar program, the DNA double-helix molecule, as well as the atom.

Robert A.F. Thurman is the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Research in the Department of Religion at Columbia College or university, President from the Tibet Home U.S., a non-profit organization focused on the preservation and promotion of Tibetan civilization, and Chief executive from the American Institute of Buddhist Studies. Thurman is actually a talented popularizer of the Buddha’s teachings. He’s a riveting loudspeaker and an writer of many books on Tibet, Buddhism, art, politics and culture