Religious Development: Buddhism

 

 
Mandala
  Jung's interest: http://jungcurrents.com/carl-jung-ten-quotations-about-mandalas/
  http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amitayus_Mandala.jpeg
  http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chenrezig_Sand_Mandala.jpg
  http://www.berzinarchives.com/web/images/global/3D-mandala.jpg
  http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/online/mandala/
  Seed syllables for meditation
   
 
Five Aggregates
   
  Form (matter)
  Perception
  Feeling (attraction, repulsion, neutral)
  Habit energy, predispositions, memory traces
  Consciousness
   
 
Five aggregates mapped on the mandala
   
 
Form
white
east

Habit energy,
green
north

Consciousness
blue
center

Feeling
yellow
south
Perception
red
west
 

Note:

The colors associated with the aggregates will vary from mandala to mandala. The above arrangement is for mandalas associated with Manjushri Bodhisattva, who sits in the blue center of his mandala palace and faces to the east.