- དཀྱིལ་འཁོར།
- མཎྜ་ལ།
- མཎྜལ།
- dkyil ’khor
- maN+Da la
- maN+Dala
- maṇḍala
- maṇḍalaka
- Term
- maṇḍala
- དཀྱིལ་འཁོར།
- dkyil ’khor
- maṇḍala
In the higher tantras this is usually a diagram representing the details of the visualization of a deity and its palace and retinue. In the Kāraṇḍavyūha it is a simpler representation of a few deities, made of precious powders.
- maṇḍala
- དཀྱིལ་འཁོར།
- dkyil ’khor
- maṇḍala
Apart from the well-known meaning of a magical diagram and several other conventional meanings, this term seems to denote any magically charged area or sphere of a specific type, such as, e.g., the maṇḍala of wind, the maṇḍala of sound, etc.
- maṇḍala
- དཀྱིལ་འཁོར།
- dkyil ’khor
- maṇḍala
A mystic diagram, usually consisting of a square within a circle, used to define a sacred space in the context of esoteric rituals of initiation and consecration preliminary to certain advanced meditational practices.
- maṇḍala
- དཀྱིལ་འཁོར།
- dkyil ’khor
- maṇḍala
The energy centers along the middle channel.
- maṇḍala
- དཀྱིལ་འཁོར།
- dkyil ’khor
- maṇḍala
Also rendered in this sūtra as “disk.”
- maṇḍala
- དཀྱིལ་འཁོར།
- dkyil ’khor
- maṇḍala
Literally a “disk” or “circle,” in the ritual context maṇḍala is a sacred space on the ground or a raised platform, arranged according to a pattern that varies from rite to rite.
- maṇḍala
- དཀྱིལ་འཁོར།
- dkyil ’khor
- maṇḍala
Literally a “disk” or “circle,” in the ritual context maṇḍala is a sacred space on the ground or a raised platform, arranged according to a pattern that varies from rite to rite.
- maṇḍala
- དཀྱིལ་འཁོར།
- dkyil ’khor
- maṇḍala
- 道場
Literally a “disk” or “circle,” in the ritual context maṇḍala is a sacred space on the ground or a raised platform, arranged according to a pattern that varies from rite to rite.
Literally a “disk” or “circle,” in the ritual context a maṇḍala is a sacred space on the ground or a raised platform, arranged according to a pattern that varies from rite to rite.
- maṇḍala
- དཀྱིལ་འཁོར།
- མཎྜ་ལ།
- མཎྜལ།
- dkyil ’khor
- maN+Da la
- maN+Dala
- maṇḍala
A magical circle or sacred area; also a chapter or section of a book.
Literally a “disk” or “circle,” in the ritual context maṇḍala is a sacred space on the ground or a raised platform, arranged according to a pattern that varies from rite to rite.
- inner circle
- དཀྱིལ་འཁོར།
- dkyil ’khor
- maṇḍalaka
A demarcated area within a larger boundary. An official act of the saṅgha requires (1) a quorum of all monks present within the monastery’s larger boundary, or (2) a quorum of monks within an “inner circle.”
- inner circle
- དཀྱིལ་འཁོར།
- dkyil ’khor
- maṇḍalaka
A demarcated area within a larger boundary. An official act of the saṅgha requires a “consensus” of all monks present within the monastery’s boundaries or of a quorum of monks within an “inner circle.”
- disk
- དཀྱིལ་འཁོར།
- dkyil ’khor
- maṇḍala
Also rendered in this sūtra as “maṇḍala.”