Artwork

I've finished the project that I have been working on for some time to provide line drawings for each of the figures for which I have mantras. I have replaced other images that were a bit of a mixed bag. This will , I hope, contribute to a consistent look and feel for the site, and make it more visually interesting.

Although the influence of Buddhist art is positive and strong in most traditions, I am of the opinion that a mantra - whether chanted or written - is just as good a representation of a Buddha or Bodhisattva as an anthropomorphic image. I am wary of thinking of a Buddha as a happy monk sitting on a lotus floating up in the sky. Mantra being more abstract lessens the tendency to reify the Buddha.

Update

I've tweaked the mantra page which was starting to get very image heavy and taking an appreciable time to load. It also means I don't have to make all those little mantra images.

Also added svāhā and phaṭ to the bija page and created pages for them - still need to fully link them into the rest of the site. I know they aren't really seed-syllables, but they had to go somewhere, and they are in fact used like seed syllables.