Hace mucho años atrás aprendí del origen de los mandalas y desde entonces he quedado fascinada. Como ya ustedes saben, hace unas semanas aprendí a hacer mandalas de granny no he podido parar te tejerlas. Realmente tienen un significado espiritual difícil de describir.
Los mándalas son diagramas o representaciones esquemáticas y simbólicas del macrocosmos y el microcosmos, utilizados en el budismo y el hinduismo. Estructuralmente, el espacio sagrado (el centro del universo y soporte de concentración), es generalmente representado como un círculo inscrito dentro de una forma cuadrangular. En la práctica, los iantra hindúes son lineales, mientras que los mándalas budistas son bastante figurativos. A partir de los ejes cardinales se suelen sectorizar las partes o regiones internas del círculo-mándala.Por otra parte, la mayoría de las culturas posee configuraciones mandálicas o mandaloides, frecuentemente con intención espiritual: la mandorla (almendra) del arte cristiano medieval, ciertos laberintos en el pavimento de las iglesias góticas, los rosetones de vitral en las mismas iglesias; los diagramas de los indios pueblo, etcétera.
Estas mandalas tejidas además de ser una práctica espiritual mientras se tejen, pueden ser muy útiles. Desde alfombritas, manteles y tapetes su uso es muy decorativo y diverso.
Aquí les dejo los más recientes tejidos de mandalas...
Some years back I learned about mandalas and since I have been fascinated with them. Like you all know, recently I learned how to do granny mandalas and since I haven't been able to stop crocheting them. In reality they have a spiritual meaning that is hard for me to describe in my own words.
Maṇḍala (मण्डल) is a Sanskrit word that means "circle". In the Hindu and Buddhist religious traditions their sacred artoften 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 otherIndian religions, particularly Buddhism. In the Tibetan branch of Vajrayana Buddhism, mandalas have been developed into sandpainting. They are also a key part of anuttarayoga tantra meditation practices.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. According to David Fontana, its symbolic nature can help one "to 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." The psychoanalyst Carl Jung saw the mandala as "a representation of the unconscious self," and believed his paintings of mandalas enabled him to identify emotional disorders and work towardswholeness in personality.
Crochet-ing these mandalas have been such a spiritual practice for me and in addition I am very well aware that they are very versatile. You can use them as tablecloth, tapestry, little area rug, etc.
Here are the most recent mandalas I have made...
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