The mandala as a tool of personal knowledge

  • Margarita Tsering Riera Ortolá Doctora en Bellas Artes e ilustradora de pintura. Universitat Miguel Hernàndez. Departament d’Art
  • Joan Llobell Joan Llobell es Profesor Titular de Universidad de la Universidad Miguel Hernández, artista interdisciplinar y comisario de exposiciones.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/ARTE.57567
Keywords: Mandala, art, psychology.

Abstract

Mandala, Khil Khor in Tibetan, is an artistic manifestation which comes from the Buddhist tradition and has been spread over the West region. The psychologist Carl Gustav Jung was one of the first people who looked into this universal archetype and studied its potential as a healing tool in the different levels of the human being. The study of those encrypted designs, generally rounds, is an approximation to the personal knowledge whose key is decoded in the mandala’s centre, the axis mundi.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.
View citations

Article download

Crossmark

Metrics

Published
2017-10-09
How to Cite
Riera Ortolá M. T. y Llobell J. (2017). The mandala as a tool of personal knowledge. Arteterapia. Papeles de arteterapia y educación artística para la inclusión social, 12, 141-158. https://doi.org/10.5209/ARTE.57567
Issue
Vol. 12 (2017)
Section
Articles

License

In order to support the global exchange of knowledge, the journal Arteterapia. Papeles de arteterapia y educación artística para la inclusión social is allowing unrestricted access to its content as from its publication in this electronic edition, and as such it is an open-access journal. The originals published in this journal are the property of the Complutense University of Madrid and any reproduction thereof in full or in part must cite the source. All content is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 use and distribution licence (CC BY 4.0). This circumstance must be expressly stated in these terms where necessary. You can view the summary and the complete legal text of the licence.