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Reading & Interpreting the Symbols & Iconography of the Yama Dharmaraja Mandala
Representations of Deity Mandalas are created for many different reasons and probably least of all as 'an artistic aid for meditation' as is commonly believed by many Western scholars. The primary...
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It has become obvious that the subject of mandalas is too large for the current navigation on the site. A new Mandala Resource Page has been created to help navigate and also to highlight examples of...
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Yaks and Mandalas! What do they have in Common?
The Himalayan Art Resources website was certainly a participant in the successful Rubin Museum of Art exhibition Mandala, The Perfect Circle. HAR provided scholarship and essays both for the catalogue...
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Vajrakila: A Form or a Different Deity?
This form of the deity represented as the central figure of the mandala painting does not follow the standard appearance for the deity Vajrakila. The subject of the painting is unusual because the...
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Mapping a Mandala: Hevajra
Paintings of the Hevajra Mandala are quite numerous and at times of a very high artistic quality. This painting from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is one of the finest and best preserved in the...
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Hevajra Mandala.....more visuals
More visuals for Hevajra Mandala HAR #87225. The two visual key pages have been placed alongside the main image with the identification keys for the numbers and colours located below - all on one page....
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Mandala Main Page - Updated
Mandala, Deity Mandala: a circular diagram, highly technical and precise, representing an idealized Tantric Buddhist, Hindu or Bon Meditational Deity - surrounded by an idealized and symbolic universe,...
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A Vajravali Set of Paintings
This Vajravali Set of Mandala Paintings were created to commemorate the death of the 11th Ngor Khenpo Sanggye Sengge (1504-1569) [TBRC P2510], head of the Ngor sub-school of Sakya. They were...
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Early Hevajra Mandala - Added
This Hevajra Mandala is a wonderful example of early 14th and 15th century painting. The iconography is crystal clear and every figure can be recognized, identified and understood from the point of...
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Mandala Roof Balcony, Sakya Town, Tibet
The Mandala Roof Balcony of Lhakang Chenmo Monastery, Sakya Town, Tibet, is located on the 2nd to top floor and faces in towards the central open courtyard below. The mandala paintings are subject to a...
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