Art

Mandalas in Art

Fashion designer Mandali Mendrilla designed an interactive art installation called Mandala of Desires (Blue Lotus Wish Tree) made in peace silk and eco friendly textile ink, displayed at the China Art Museum in Shanghai in November 2015. The pattern of the dress was based on the Goloka Yantra mandala, shaped as a lotus with eight petals. Visitors were invited to place a wish on the sculpture dress, which will be taken to India and offered to a genuine living Wish Tree.

Sri Yantra Mandala Vishnu Mandala Tibetan Mandala Bhutanese Mandala

A diagramic drawing of the Sri Yantra, showing the outside square, with four T-shaped gates, and the central circle

Vishnu Mandala(Traditionally found in Nepal)

Painted 19th century Tibetan mandala of the Naropa tradition, Vajrayogini stands in the center of two crossed red triangles, Rubin Museum of Art

Painted Bhutanese Medicine Buddha mandala with the goddess Prajnaparamita in center, 19th century, Rubin Museum of Art

Six Chakravartins Mandala Vajravarahi Mandala Kalachakra Mandala Jain Cosmology Mandala

Mandala of the Six Chakravartins

Vajravarahi Mandala

Kalachakra Mandala

Jain cosmological diagrams and text

Monastery Mandala Borobudur Mandala Mahavira Mandala

A mandala near the entrance to Tawang Monastery

Floorplan for the 9th-century Indonesian Buddhist temple Borobudur in the form of a mandala

Jain picture of Mahavira