August 24, 2004

• I think sand mandalas would make some awesome tattoos. Except the point of mandalas is making something non-permanent, that you destroy aftewards. That's kinda the opposite of a tattoo. The snow lion from the real Tibetian flag would also make an awesome tattoo.
• Nope. Nice links. Thanks.
• So I'm not sure if this really counts, but i'll jump at the opportunity for some shameless self-promotion. I did a series of drawings based off of Herman Hesse's Siddhartha, still one of my favorite books. One image I did had a mandala in it, which you can see here. The mandala image (on the left) is in ball point pen, the earth image on the right was done with ink and brush. The image is small, so you can't really see a lot of the line work, but it gives you an idea of what the piece looks like. Of course, I used a photoreference for the images rather than inventing my own mandala, but for this particular piece I think the mandala needed somme sort of legitimacy.
• Very cool, roach.
• Cool links- thanks! except the point of mandalas is making something non-permanent, that you destroy aftewards. Only the sand paintings are destroyed. Eastern religions are full of mandalas as meditation objects and symbolic portraits, and some have been preserved for centuries. I find it interesting that the Navajo also create sand paintings with mandala-like qualities, that are destroyed after use.
• None of these look like Nelson Mandala to me, Darshon.
• zedediah, yea, I was going to add some of the native paintings, but I find myself not drawn to them nearly as much. It may be because I have been surrounded by tribes/tribal art for many years.....familiarity breeds.....indifference?
• I especially like these. It may be because I am very stoned.
• Just remember that mandalas impart demons into the environment!
• Freaks.
• Buddhist monks from the Namgyal Monastery in Ithaca, New York will construct a five-and-a-half foot Medicine Buddha sand mandala in the Ackland's Yager Gallery of Asian Art. On that day, the monks will dismantle the mandala and deposit the sand in a body of water. This process symbolizes the transience of life and the ideal of nonattachment to the material world.
• Sometime Tuesday after the monks had finished their labors for the day a woman with her small child visited the post office inside Union Station, near where the design was being created. The child, apparently attracted by the pretty colors, wandered over to play with it. “He did a little tap dance on it, completely destroying it,” said Lama Chuck Stanford of the Rime center. The mother did not report the incident, but a security camera at Union Station captured the moment. “She summarily picked the child up and boogied,” said Bob Smock, security manager for the station. Stupid kid. Get out of our enlightenment.
• What's the symbolism of a small child jumping up and down on our transient life?
• Ah, to be buddhist. Sadly, I'm not....I would have freaked on his ass.
• Ah, they're just going to throw it into the river this weekend anyway, right? Quit lookin' at me like that!
• We had monks come in and make a mandala at the museum where I worked, and we had kids out their hands in it every single day. Every morning the monks would come back and have to do repairs before they could continue their work. And the parents were uniformly outraged when the guards asked them to get their kids out of it.
• This is so weird to me. Were Abigail to do such a thing, she'd be in BIG trouble. Of course, at one year old, it's my responsibility to keep her out of stuff. Thank God for strollers!
• And the parents were uniformly outraged when the guards asked them to get their kids out of it. Parents suck. Except you minda25. And Das Tracicraken, naturally. Oh, and me own dear Ma. Oh and GramMa too, of course. I think that's about it. Wait - and the other people I missed.
• Spontaneous Temporary Sand Paintings by Joe Mangrum
• These are just amazing. Beautiful. And yet the first one, on that hardwood floor, made me wince a bit. I told you kids not to track sand across the floors!
• New Flower Mandalas by Kathy Klein
• Lovely!
• Hypnotizing Geometric Paintings Inspired by Sacred Mandalas
• You keep finding the most exquisite designs, Mr. Man.
• Танец на круге
• Hypnotizing.
• New Technological Mandalas and Wrapped Books Made from Soldered Computer and Radio Components