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The mandala in Nichiren Buddhism is a moji-mandala (文字曼陀羅), which is a paper hanging scroll or wooden tablet whose inscription consists of Chinese characters and medieval-Sanskrit script representing elements of the Buddha's enlightenment, protective Buddhist deities, and certain Buddhist concepts.
Sand mandala (Tibetan: དཀྱིལ་འཁོར།, Wylie: dkyil 'khor, THL kyinkhor; Chinese: 沙壇城/壇城沙畫) is a Tibetan Buddhist tradition involving the creation and destruction of mandalas made from colored sand.
Development of Tumblr began in 2006 during a two-week gap between contracts at David Karp's software consulting company, Davidville. [3] [4] Karp had been interested in tumblelogs (short-form blogs, hence the name Tumblr) [5] for some time and was waiting for one of the established blogging platforms to introduce their own tumblelogging platform.
A hanging hamsa in Tunisia. The hamsa (Arabic: خمسة, romanized: khamsa, lit. 'five', referring to images of 'the five fingers of the hand'), [1] [2] [3] also known as the hand of Fatima, [4] is a palm-shaped amulet popular throughout North Africa and in the Middle East and commonly used in jewellery and wall hangings.
Red Background—literally gold line, but referring to gold line on a vermillion (Tib.) mar-tang Whereas typical tangkas are fairly small, with painted area between about 20 to 50 centimetres high, there are also giant festival tangkas, usually appliqué, and designed to be unrolled against a wall in a monastery for particular religious occasions.
Pura Penataran Agung Lempuyang is oriented toward the top of Mount Lempuyang. The temple compound is divided into three areas: the outer sanctuary of the temple (jaba pisan or nistaning mandala), the middle sanctuary (jaba tengah or madya mandala), and the inner main sanctuary (jero or utamaning mandala). [10] [11]
Mandalay (/ ˌ m æ n d ə ˈ l eɪ / or / ˈ m æ n d əl eɪ /; Burmese: မန္တလေး; MLCTS: manta.le:) is the second-largest city in Myanmar, after Yangon.Located on the east bank of the Irrawaddy River, 631 km (392 miles; road distance) north of Yangon, the city has a population of 1,225,553 (2014 census).
Mandala (Korean: 만다라) is a 1981 South Korean film about Buddhist monks in Korea based on the novel of the same name by Kim Seong-Dong, who spent 10 years as a Buddhist monk. This is considered by many critics to be director Im Kwon-taek 's breakthrough as a cinematic artist.