Preparing the Mandala 2010

Описание: Compassionate Service Society (www.compassheart.com) had organized a Peace Mandala in December 19, 2010. The purpose of this mandala is bringing peace to our heart, our community, and our relatives who are in the spirit world.
The mandala is the consummation of the 2 Buddhist teachings, one from the Prajna School and one from Avatamsaka School.
In this video, we show you the first phase of the mandala: the building phase.
There are 2 circles and 5 colored squares.
The 5 squares represent the 5 Skandhas or 5 Coverings, layers that cover over our true nature: body, feeling, thought, habitual energy, and consciousness.
Within the 5 squares, there is a smaller circle, representing the potential of enlightenment. It is the Circle of Liberation. It is here that we should develop our inner lights, our true nature, our Buddha hood. The path of developing this inner lights is the path of wisdom (prajna). This wisdom is presented as a small, transparent statue of a Buddha placed in the center of the Circle of Liberation.
Then the big circle surrounds the 5 squares represents Dharmadhatu, or the realm of reality, in which all phenomena, all noumena, all sages and commoners, all yin and yang, good and bad, all duality, are included within. Dharmadhatu is the Ultimate, the Totality, the Kosmos.
We hope you enjoy this presentation!