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    Indian Mandala: The Most Beautiful Pattern

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    Mandalas are spiritual and ritual symbols in Indian religions that represent the universe. They typically have a square shape with four gates and a circle at the center. Mandalas are used for meditation, establishing sacred spaces, and spiritual guidance. They have become very popular symbols in Indian culture and worldwide through tattoos. In India, people traditionally make colorful mandalas on the floor at sunrise using flowers and chalk, then destroy them as a symbol of impermanence.

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    Mandalas are spiritual and ritual symbols in Indian religions that represent the universe. They typically have a square shape with four gates and a circle at the center. Mandalas are used for meditation, establishing sacred spaces, and spiritual guidance. They have become very popular symbols in Indian culture and worldwide through tattoos. In India, people traditionally make colorful mandalas on the floor at sunrise using flowers and chalk, then destroy them as a symbol of impermanence.

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    Mandalas are spiritual and ritual symbols in Indian religions that represent the universe. They typically have a square shape with four gates and a circle at the center. Mandalas are used for meditation, establishing sacred spaces, and spiritual guidance. They have become very popular symbols in Indian culture and worldwide through tattoos. In India, people traditionally make colorful mandalas on the floor at sunrise using flowers and chalk, then destroy them as a symbol of impermanence.

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    Indian Mandala: The Most Beautiful Pattern

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    Mandalas are spiritual and ritual symbols in Indian religions that represent the universe. They typically have a square shape with four gates and a circle at the center. Mandalas are used for meditation, establishing sacred spaces, and spiritual guidance. They have become very popular symbols in Indian culture and worldwide through tattoos. In India, people traditionally make colorful mandalas on the floor at sunrise using flowers and chalk, then destroy them as a symbol of impermanence.

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    Indian Mandala: The most beautiful pattern

    1. Read the text and underlinethe adjectives and the superlative


    structures that you find.
    A mandala is a spiritual and ritual symbol in Indian religions, representing
    the universe. The basic form of most mandalas is a square with four gates
    containing a circle with a center point. Each gate is in the general shape of a
    T. Mandalas often exhibit balance.
    The term appears in the Rigveda as the name of the sections of the work, but is
    also used in other religions and philosophies, particularly Buddhism.
    In various spiritual traditions, mandalas may be employed for focusing attention of
    practitioners and adepts, as a spiritual guidance tool, for establishing a sacred
    space, and as an aid to meditation and trance induction.
    In common use, mandala has become a generic term for any diagram, chart or
    geometric pattern that represents the cosmosmetaphysically or symbolically;
    a microcosm of the universe.
    Mandalas are the most popular objects in indian culture and they are the biggest
    phenomenom in trival tattoos trends all over the world. The most bright the manda
    lis, the most spiritual it gets. Mandalas are symbols of life and letting go, people in
    India wake up very early in the sunrise to make mandalas on the floor, the use
    flowers and colorful chalk, as son as the sun rises, they all destroy them as a
    symbol that life events are temporary and no matter what, we need to continue with
    strengh.

    2. Where are mandalas from? __________________________________________


    3. What is their importance in Indian culture? ______________________________
    4. At what time do indian do them on the floor?
    ________________________________
    5. In what religin are they most popular?
    _________________________________________
    6. In which situations are they used today?
    ________________________________________

    3. Describe the following mandalas using adjective:

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