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#mandala

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I haven't posted much lately due to mental and physical health issues that make it hard to do much except close my eyes and rest...but thought I'd share something that I'm slowly trying to finish in Sketchbook Pro with digital pencil brushes. It's one of many from a vector drawing series that I started around this time last year I think. I'll try and post some progress images soon.

Highly detailed vector mandala drawing that is coloured white with black outlines on a black background. It represents a stylized eight spoked wheel similar to a buddhist wheel of dhamma with many organic shapes that form patterned layers of smaller mandalas within the whole that connect and flow into one another.
#art#mastoart#mandala
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Steve McCarty 🇯🇵

Tō-ji (東寺) was a national guardian temple at the beginning of the Heian Period in the late 8th Century, hence its earlier name Kyo-o-gokoku-ji. It became historically important when Emperor Saga subsequently granted the temple to Kūkai as the headquarters of his new religion Shingon, in the lineage of Indian and Chinese Esoteric Buddhism. After returning from the T'ang Dynasty capital, Kūkai was instrumental in starting Japan's golden age. Near Kyōto Station now, it has Japan's tallest pagoda, and one of the great treasures of human accomplishment, a 3D maṇḍala of divinities. I went looking for plum blossoms (梅の花), which are very late this year, and was mostly rewarded with fragrant white, pink, and red blossoms.

See more details in the captions to the photos, especially about Kūkai with the first photo, findings from my in situ MA research..

Publications on Japan: japanned.hcommons.org/japanolo

#Japan #Japanese #religion #Buddhism #Shinto #Kyoto #mandala #travel #culture #photos @religion

The tallest pagoda in Japan, with a Shintō shrine in the Buddhist temple, as Kūkai's temples always include a shrine to the indigenous religion. His aristocratic Saeki family had shrines, so incorporating them into the imported religion helped get his whole clan active in Shingon, a couple of whom became designated great saints. That was one of the Daishi’s unnoticed superpowers.
Plum blossoms
More plum blossoms
Photos are prohibited, but this is the 3D maṇḍala from the book Kūkai the Universal.
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When I made these back in 2022 I heard the story of a grandmother who gave soldiers sunflower seeds to put in their pockets so that something good may grow out of the war and their deaths.

I contemplated this while I used the Tryzub device without the shield on the Ukrainian Coat of Arms and it's two colours to form ornamental mandalas that represented sunflowers.

Golden yellow and azure blue Tryzub or trident symbol mandala on an azure blue background. The Tryzub or Coat of Arms of Ukraine is arranged around 8 octagonal points in a variety of layers and patterns to stylistically represent a golden sunflower.
Golden yellow and azure blue Tryzub or trident symbol mandala on an azure blue background. The Tryzub or Coat of Arms of Ukraine is arranged around 8 octagonal points in a variety of layers and patterns to stylistically represent a golden sunflower.
Golden yellow and azure blue Tryzub or trident symbol mandala on an azure blue background. The Tryzub or Coat of Arms of Ukraine is arranged around 8 octagonal points in a variety of layers and patterns to stylistically represent a golden sunflower.
Golden yellow and azure blue Tryzub or trident symbol mandala on an azure blue background. The Tryzub or Coat of Arms of Ukraine is arranged around 8 octagonal points in a variety of layers and patterns to stylistically represent a golden sunflower.
#ukraine#art#vectorart
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