Circle The Word Mandala
July 31, 2008 by DelibCreate
Filed under Learning
“The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.” Empedocles, 490-430 BC
The word “mandala” comes originally from Sanskrit, the ancient classical language of India. The literal translation into English is “circle”, and can refer to anything round.
It was probably the Tibetan Buddhists who first made the word mandala known to westerners with their elaborate sand mandalas. Carl Jung also added to the term’s popularity with his study of circle symbolism within human psychology. Read more
