mandala

Text and color illustrations explore step-by-step instructions for creating fun and inspiring mandalas with unexpected materials, from candy to stickers.

Collects five hundred images from nature and civilization that reflect mandalic patterns and shapes, examining history, science, and art, and provides thirteen mandalic images that can be reproduced and colored in for meditation or amusement.

These richly designed mandalas break away from the traditional Eastern format, which typically depicta the divine architecture of the Cosmos; instead, they reconnect us with Earth, and essential experiences of self-awareness, simplicity, and harmony. In-depth instructions explain how to meditate on the images, and why the particular patterns draw us in so intensely.--From publisher description.