Mandala

sorrow, first let the dames go up to where he lieth. Rise, come unto the world of life, O woman: come, he is lifeless by whose side thou liest. Wifehood with this thy husband was thy portion, who took thy hand and wooed thee as a lover.” (Rig Ved, Mandala 10, Chapter 18, double line 7)this says a widow to rise from the pier of her dead husband and now move on to take the hand of her new husband. When so many widows were burning themselves with their husband’s people started reading this to say…

According to many the human being acquires a skill that can distinguish itself from other organisms that reside on this plant, which the creative mind and the ability to express this creativity in every aspect of life. Creativity is a skill that can be found within every person within us it does not not distinguish its self in any shape or form but can variate from a person to another, one man’s art can be another man’s garbage. Every ones perspective about creativity differs from the other.…

powerful. Like Martin Luther King Jr, he never acted in anger or in violence. He always gets his point across to people by the way of words. He always showed the world what forgiveness to the worst of people to the best looked like. One quote of mandalas that show how resilient he is, "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers…

I have always felt like I was an “old sole”, and by that I mean I have never felt my age. I always hung around people much older than myself and have gained much insight to what life was all about. I knew what I wanted at 14 and that was to have a child. My passion to be a mom was very strong. With all the negativity that came with this, I was still determined to succeed and at age 16, my son was born. I proved myself to be a good mother. I felt a lot of people didn’t think that I was going to…

Death and the afterlife are two important topics in religions with most having different ideas about what happens when someone dies as well as where they go or become. Hinduism and Buddhism are often grouped together when discussing religions, however, when it comes to these topics they have very different ideas. At the surface they may seem similar to an outsider but when really studied it is obvious that they are two totally separate concepts. They have fragments of their thoughts and rites…

tattoos are on my left arm and are formed into a half-sleeve. There are eight pieces that make up my half-sleeve. The biggest piece on my arm is an anchor, the other pieces are a Celtic knot, shamrock, feather, butterfly, three daisies, crown, and a mandala. Most of the pieces mean something very special to me and a couple of the pieces I really just enjoy on my arm and have liked them for a long time. The anchor is a sibling tattoo, my brother has an anchor on his chest and my sister will get…

directed towards a deity. This act differs significantly in the various religious groups depending on the teachings of each group. For Buddhist worship takes different forms founded on the doctrine of skillful means, ranging from activities such as mandala, guru yoga, thanka, panchamrita, yantra yoga and ganacakra. Worship in Buddhism involves a commitment to piece the triple Gem (Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha). In pursuit of one’s spiritual aspiration in Buddhism, the concept of meditation comes…

Freud also welcomed/influenced women into the psychoanalytic stance. Melanie Klien was one of the first to put emphasis on the pre-Oedipal stages (Ethan R. Plaut, 2001). Her and her partner, D. W. Winnicott, created an object–relations school to solve what they believed to be the central problem in life: finding a balance between independence and dependence on others. The way people reacted to this separation and loss is mostly determined by the first two years of our lives. A baby requires it’s…

Lee is an assistant professor at the American University School of International Service along with being the director of the Mandala Projects. His article “Global Warming is Just the Tip of the Iceberg” was published in the Washington Post in January of 2009. While stating his facts and what he believes will happen if global warming continues the way it does, he provides each reason…

Romanesque art obtained its title as a result of the extensive usage of stone vaulting and stone sculpture within the architectural development of churches (Kleiner, 2012). The Romanesque age is the first era that earned its title as a result of an artistic style since Archaic and Classical Greece (Kleiner, 2012). In the 11th and 12th century European architecture embraced a medieval style that incorporated Roman design in which historians titled Romanesque (Kleiner, 2012). The ecclesiastical…