Imagine your problems fading away after staring at a colorful circle adorned with diagrams, flowers and shapes.
That is what the mandala is for.
A circular image reflecting the Buddhist vision of spiritual reality is claimed to heal, relieve stress, bring luck and open new possibilities. It can also simply be a highly original piece of art in your home.
Luckily, you don’t need to travel to Tibet to get one. Andrey Zinchuk, an artist and psychologist living in Kyiv, will help you to create a mandala and even teach you the proper way to meditate on it.
In the Hindu and Buddhist traditions, the mandalas are shaped as a square with four gates containing a circle with a center point. The focus is where the magic happens – past, present and future converge, erasing barriers of time.
In one form or another, the mandalas have been part of many different cultures – Indian, Chinese, Tibetan, Celtic, South America and even Slavic. In Christianity elements of the mandala can be seen in the art of rose windows or halos.
Sun, Feb 5, 12 p.m. – 6 p.m., 30 Pobedy St, office 26, 093-567-15-09, 096-547-94-71, [email protected], ticket: Hr 250.
