Mandala (English) By Kalpana Palkhiwala

There are many books on Mandala and thousands of Mandala designs. One might see it as a visual pleasure, but it has deeper meaning than that. With the help of chart of symbols and abstracts which are used in Mandalas knowing their meaning, your visual pleasure will take you to cross all those eleven levels to enter the ‘Palace of Knowledge’. There are only simple mandalas (dedicated to teachers), Tibetan mandalas (Thangka), Mantra Mandalas, Yantra Mandalas and Zendalas. I hope one will understand a difference between Mandala and Zendala. Each Mandala illustration is designed to stand alone as well as to integrate with one’s own inner self. You can choose to open any page and view it or read about it. Words hold power and they affect all life very strongly. If, we choose positive words we co-create a wonderful world. But, if one cannot decipher words and cannot get the meaning, then what is use of words? At this point a picture helps one to understand everything the creator wants to convey. These are a kind of pictures where one can see his/her own soul besides reading meaning behind each picture. The theme of this mandala is ‘Prayer for peace’.