Mandala

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Mandala (Sanskrit Template:IAST मंडलः "circle", "completion")<ref>For a Wiktionary definition refer: Mandala.</ref> is a term used to refer to various objects. It is of Hindu originTemplate:Fact, but is also used in other Indian religions, such as Buddhism. In the Tibetan branch of Vajrayana Buddhism, they have been developed into sandpainting. In practice, mandala has become a generic term for any plan, chart or geometric pattern that represents the cosmos metaphysically or symbolically, a microcosm of the Universe from the human perspective.

[edit] Carl Jung and UFOs as Mandalas

Psychologist Carl Jung hypothesized that when people sighted UFOs, they were having a spiritual experience in which the flying saucer was, for them, a mandala, a symbol of wholeness. Jung later stated perhaps UFOs were real objects of an extraterrestrial origin and that witnesses may be having a real experience when seeing them, rather than a metaphysical one.

• Brauen, M. (1997). The Mandala, Sacred circle in Tibetan Buddhism Serindia Press, London.

• Tucci,Giuseppe (1973). The Theory and Practice of the Mandala trans. Alan Houghton Brodrick, New York, Samuel Weisner.