History
The Kalachakra (literally “wheel of time”) is a ritual image of the unity of the inner world of man and the outer world of the Universe.
During the ceremony, this mandala is recreated in the smallest detail from colored sand for several days, and then symbolically destroyed to indicate the temporality and cyclical nature of the stages of order.
Thus, the idea of the comprehensiveness and fluidity of time is recreated. In the center of the mandala, or at the top of the palace, which is depicted here in two dimensions, is placed the creative divine couple.
Kalachakra
Place: Tibet
Time: 8th century BC
Material: sand
Kalachakra
Place: Tibet
Time: 8th century BC
Material: sand
History
The Kalachakra (literally “wheel of time”) is a ritual image of the unity of the inner world of man and the outer world of the Universe.
During the ceremony, this mandala is recreated in the smallest detail from colored sand for several days, and then symbolically destroyed to indicate the temporality and cyclical nature of the stages of order.
Thus, the idea of the comprehensiveness and fluidity of time is recreated. In the center of the mandala, or at the top of the palace, which is depicted here in two dimensions, is placed the creative divine couple.