Monday, 28 October 2013

Buddhist Pancharang depictions

The Buddhist Pancharang Concept:
The Buddhist Pancharang concept consists of Blue/ Black, White, Red, Green and Yellow.

Meditating on these colours helps you tranform your feelings

Blue/Black: From anger to wisdom/ hate to compassion (depicts the element air)

White: From ignorance to knowledge (depicts water)

Red: Worldly attachment to discernment (depicts fire)

Green: From jealousy to peace

Yellow: From pride to humility (depicts earth)

The colours are also used to depict the various directions - east, west, north, south and central (white, red, green, yellow and blue/black respectively)

These colours are brought to life in the Buddhist Tangka paintings as well. 

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