Sand mandala: Tibetan Buddhist ritual

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8 жыл бұрын

Mandalas are of profound symbolic value in Tantric Buddhism and are regarded by some as sacred. They can take a variety of forms: from simple diagrams and elaborate paintings on cloth, to complicated patterns of coloured sand and large three dimensional carved structures.
Sand Mandalas represent the universe and act as an architectural blueprint of the enlightened mind. They can also function as a contemplative aid in visualisation meditation.
Mandalas often refer to secret Tantric doctrine and highlight the ideals of the Buddhist path which includes putting an end to suffering, attaining enlightenment and understanding reality through the Wisdom of Emptiness.
At the heart of this medicine mandala is a lotus throne and on it is a sacred medical text. Seated within the petals of a lotus flower are the Eight Medicine Buddhas, who came into the world to save sentient beings from the five degenerations: shortened life-span, delusions, degenerate persons, time and wrong views. In the outer sections the disciples of the Medicine Buddhas are represented by symbols.
A rare opportunity to observe the creation and offering of a "Mela" or Medicine Mandala, made from tiny grains of vibrantly coloured sand, with Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Tashi Lhunpo monastery in India. Sand Mandalas are unique to Tibetan Buddhism, representing an architectural blueprint of the enlightened mind, functioning - among other things - as a contemplative aid in visualisation meditation.
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@Shrikant_Patil 7 жыл бұрын

Even destroyed Manadala looks beautiful :)

@lliv_849 4 жыл бұрын

School work sent me here

@user-pm1gb2eo1s 3 жыл бұрын

All I can think about is how difficult it would have to be to divide and store the multicoloured sands again.

@hernanmorante3703 5 жыл бұрын

Imagine if they sneeze

@mertinibus 4 жыл бұрын

They'd laugh about it:)

@klausknudsen9646 4 жыл бұрын

maby theres a munck code, they have to pass first? see the pepper, sniffe the pepper, now ignorer the pepper. poor kids xD

@seeyoshirun 3 жыл бұрын

According to what I was reading about this ritual on Wikipedia, they use a dense variety of sand that is resistant to wind or sneezing.

@evantgustafson2845 6 жыл бұрын

when I make a sand mandala, like that, I'm going to take outside on a windy day and let it all blow away peacefully.

@LAdiartos 5 жыл бұрын

Thanos likes your style

@sallylang2554 4 жыл бұрын

i am gonna blow or use a desk fan

@skyestuffs 6 жыл бұрын

This is a most perfect way to create. Holding onto a creation makes it stale and makes it lose its vigor.

@sallahdaniels6385 5 жыл бұрын

Like cartoons.

@ihatefurries3441 4 жыл бұрын

I agree thats why I got rid of my kids

@joshualammers3127 4 жыл бұрын

@@ihatefurries3441 wait what

@hinhaale2501 4 жыл бұрын

I once saw a vid of a group of maybe 4 women go into trance and then making a huge sand Mandala working perfectly synchronized without ever looking at anything but their spot - with exactly matched pace so they finished at the same time working from a corner each in total silence. Wish I could find it again, it was truly exquisite and mystical..

@firstnamelastname738 5 жыл бұрын

Did you know that mandala was actually originated from Hinduism? Yeah, it's true. We Hindus make small scale sand mandalas everyday near the house entrance as an ancient tradition. Wherever they are made, they are beautiful bring positivity to the environment. But I gotta say, Buddhist mandalas are really beautiful and spiritual.

@iplayfortnite8133 5 жыл бұрын

Daily dose sent me

@codelucky 4 жыл бұрын

Exactly!

@ilikecheese7799 4 жыл бұрын

Yo me to

@zurc-hj7we 4 жыл бұрын

Same.

@shahimagesyt 4 жыл бұрын

Ughhh he deleted the video

@NightGuyGaming1 4 жыл бұрын

Me tooo bro

@stevensteven327 4 жыл бұрын

I am constantly moving year after year, but I love to veggie garden everywhere I go. That is my personal sand mandala ❤️

@sallahdaniels6385 5 жыл бұрын

To be speak the truth: Monks are on a completely higher existence when it comes physiologically and spiritually due to the fact of not wasting their times on phones, politics, power, objects and how Canadians make the best syrup.

@helvetica709 5 жыл бұрын

Canadians DO make the best maple syrup. It's a fact

@Luna_MorningStar 5 жыл бұрын

I can confirm I live in Manitoba Canada.

@Dimitri88888888 4 жыл бұрын

@@watashinihayumegaarimasu7609 not gonna lie what you just wrote to me made me laugh a bit, especially the boomer bit xD. Thanks for that reply. Not that i want to discredit you or anything. But the good that comes from that is not the usual type. It ain't about making a piece of art that you hang or that you sell. It is about internal peace. That's why they have no qualms about destroying it. Much like people are fine with server wipes in something like Ark survival evolved and Rust. They lose all progress, yet it is essential to the game. This is no different, except there is spirituality involved. Look I ain't trying to make it sound like it is a deep fucking thing that only intellectuals can understand cause it ain't the case. But I am almost certain that those monks are far happier then most westerner.

@watashinihayumegaarimasu7609 4 жыл бұрын

@@Dimitri88888888 hmm, I guess I can agree with that, especially after the "server wipe" part, I guess you ain't a boomer after all.

@anduro7448 4 жыл бұрын

Instead of wasting their time on politics they waste time making sand drawings that they just yeet into a nearby river or sumthing once they are done

@AmandalaRocks 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful Mandala! perfect shapes.

@anonymousotter6455 5 жыл бұрын

Beautiful documentary and commentary.

@enemyofthestatevcdking5982 5 жыл бұрын

Good life lesson

@36nibs 4 жыл бұрын

The best way do deal with destructive energies ..so i was taught

@bigfootpegrande 5 жыл бұрын

Awe inspiring

@homosexualblobfish2746 4 жыл бұрын

Dude if I were the guy destroying the mandala I’d be bellyflopping all over the mandala ‘cause then I’D be the art 😂

@lielaross7208 4 жыл бұрын

that was beautiful

@hehwhwh727 3 жыл бұрын

maybe they're attached to the destroying part so they should let go of that as well, checkmate

@asherswing 4 жыл бұрын

brilliant video

@gilian2587 5 жыл бұрын

Imagine taking one of those mandalas after having been completed; and putting it into an oven so that the sand gets converted to glass. Glass, being a liquid, will eventually deform the original image, thereby still holding to the idea of impermanence; but it would have greater staying power than it has in the form of sand.

@egglandgovernment6737 5 жыл бұрын

Destroyed mandala: I’m still beautiful Monks: Uhh I can explain

@boranaslan 4 жыл бұрын

impressive

@rishavahluwalia4569 4 жыл бұрын

snort it

@alejandromas1652 4 жыл бұрын

Nice

@zervox136 4 жыл бұрын

These monks always have ultra instinct

@omare_biketonature 6 жыл бұрын

Gorguts!!!

@butterfly-ps5uj 5 жыл бұрын

this is so beautiful (the colors especially like pop art kind of)^^ but I also want to use this theorie of creating and then destroying but I will not draw mandalas but draw other art pieces and destroy them afterwards by burning them :D haha because I get to attached to my music and art and this hinders my flow and experience of the moment, I am to fixated on the outcome.! :) I hope this will help me in life^^ :D :)

@jordy9666 3 жыл бұрын

who else is here on a zoom call with your class

@blobtheblobb6653 7 жыл бұрын

Its so sad when they destroy it

@paxas03 7 жыл бұрын

That's why they do it. To practice detachment.

@blobtheblobb6653 7 жыл бұрын

Yes... I think thats what life is about.. :)

@Calakapepe 6 жыл бұрын

It makes me think about the fragility of life.

@Lowkey_Magiic 5 жыл бұрын

They destroy it because they have learned to never be emotional attached to something you’ve made

@HoneyDubey23 5 жыл бұрын

Why is it sad? You cant hold onto anything in life. Even our emotions

@RomeoRivera2C 4 жыл бұрын

Who else here from the brilliant scene of this from the House of Cards!?

@Nkkicute 3 жыл бұрын

Me! lol Season 3 Episode 7. sooo pretty!

@lightdeathguy9266 4 жыл бұрын

Hello 8C

@new-gacha-riddles-jp 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine if a monk is allergic to coloured sand and asked to help them with the mandala

@zodiark111 4 жыл бұрын

ahhh noice

@bangtanjungkookie2331 4 жыл бұрын

Imagine if someone sneeze

@diamondrocks2266 5 жыл бұрын

AAAAACHHOOOO! Ah crap

@matthewhodge6747 5 жыл бұрын

My god imagine that during allergy season

@sequoiaspencer3808 4 жыл бұрын

Lmaoo it’s gonna be gone like the wind!! 🤧🤣

@burntrubberballs 4 жыл бұрын

I wanna see what they can do with legos

@nezuko_kamado476 3 жыл бұрын

que dice esov:

@yheetoes-twitch2055 4 жыл бұрын

ngl that’s a waste of lapis u could use that for enchanting

@kalenah.4248 4 жыл бұрын

Imagine just making that beautiful masterpiece, poring your heart and soul into it to make it so perfect. But then some idiot just turns on the fan and ruins it.

@blobface103 4 жыл бұрын

That's kind of what they're doing

@warsawpact2025 3 жыл бұрын

@@blobface103 except that they turn on the fan on purpose

@auspiciousautonomous2403 4 жыл бұрын

~ But they record it -

@jijeshk5264 4 жыл бұрын

Bhayangaram

@larissamathen8815 3 жыл бұрын

They look like air nomads from avatar

@anang8 4 жыл бұрын

wow.. nice i upload himalayan buddhist monks fb page....

@margplsr3120 7 жыл бұрын

if you have time and money to live like that....

@petagonkyi 6 жыл бұрын

Destruction of Mandala is to teach the impermanence of our existence.

@ferreiro06gk65 4 жыл бұрын

Anyone from Ms. Sprague’s 3D art class?😂

@neilv9630 4 жыл бұрын

@ferreiro06gk65 4 жыл бұрын

Neil V it’s a joke, my teacher sent me here and I was wondering if anyone at my school actually cared enough to do this lmao

@neilv9630 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah. I was joking too lol. I figured as much.

@danielx40 4 жыл бұрын

The narrator doesn’t truly understand what this practice is about. She’s more like a commentator.

@AshishKumar-up8cx 4 жыл бұрын

Daily Doozers Click here.....

@qpwoeiruty108 4 жыл бұрын

just saying, if i had spent days or weeks creating sand mandalas i wouldn't regret to destroy it too. it's just nothing. just a couple days wasted. i doubt you can learn from it something about "don't be emotionally attached to somebody or something"