Please tell me about the history of Thangka and Mandala. Thank you.

Mandala is the transliteration of Sanskrit, meaning mandala, and it is called Jikuo in Tibetan.

The mandala originated from the Tantric practice activities in ancient India. At that time, in order to prevent the invasion of "demons", people built a circular or square earth altar at the practice site when practicing Tantric practices. , practice Dharma on the earth altar, invite the past, present, and future Buddhas to come and testify in person, and draw their images on the earth altar, thus forming the basic framework of the mandala in later generations, and various forms and types of mandalas have evolved. Luo.

As a symbol of the origin of the structure of the universe, the mandala is a miniature model of the place where the various gods and their accompanying gods gather.

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