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...Christian Luczanits Considering the definition of the term mandala , it needs to be noted that, in my view, the continued expansion of the semantic range of the term—culminating in the understanding by C. G. Jung and in Western psychology more broadly (briefly referred to on pp. 280–81...

...Figure 1. Drawing of details from the Musée Guimet Maṇḍala of Five Buddhas , Guiyijun period (848–1036), second half of the tenth century. Ink and color on silk, 101.5 x 61 cm. From Wang, Maṇḍalas in the Making , fig. 88. Drawing by Gerald Kozicz. ...

.... Taking literally the strict interpretation of the Vajraya¯na precepts stating that images of secret tantric deities and mandalas should not be shown to the uninitiated...

...Figure 5. A detail from Vajrabhairava mandala with Mongol imperial donor portraits, ca. 1329. Yuan dynasty. Tapestry with slits ( kesi ); silk and gold threads, 245.5 × 209 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1992.54. Artwork in the public domain...

... and distinctive clothes are identical to critical. Unfortunately, in places there are problems those regularly worn by female deities in ninth- and with both. For example, the identification of Buddha- tenth-century Esoteric Buddhist (Shingon) mandalas...

... (Kakuzen's Notes; 1176-1219), an iconographic compendi- um by the monk Kakuzen, in its Doji Kyo- (S: Kurndra Sutra) section, describes a mandala that contains the combination...

...Figure 6. The maṇḍala and mantra of Akṣobhya directly above the doorway. Two figures, a White and a Blue Acala, flank the doorway and look down upon those who enter. Photograph: Sarah Richardson. ...

... Jennifer Casler Price, Curator of Asian & Non-Western Art Fig. 8. / Four Mandalas of the Vajravali Series (ca. 1429-56) Tibet. Tangka; gouache on cotton; 89 x 73.7 cm...