The Eight Charnel Grounds of the The Peaceful Mandala - List
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The eight great charnel grounds are likely based on the burial sites around a city, and have been used to represent various spiritual themes.
The Eight Charnel Grounds of the The Peaceful Mandala - List
In the Pali Canon discourses, Gautama Buddha frequently instructs his disciples to seek out a secluded dwelling in a forest, under the shade of a tree, mountain, glen, hillside cave, charnel ground, jungle grove, in the open, or on a heap of straw.
The charnel ground is used in grappling with the concept death, impermanence and transition, and pictorially it represents the death of ego and the therefore the end of attachment to this body and life, the end of craving for a body, the fear of death and any aversion to the decay of impermanence, mainly the five poisons.
A common Nyingma (the oldest of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism) list is the eight charnel grounds of the the peaceful mandala.
In tantric practices of wrathful yidams meditational deities, surrounding the mandala are often eight quadrants which are visualised as these eight great charnel grounds.
The Eight Charnel Grounds of the The Peaceful Mandala
Synonyms/tags: Ashta Maha Smashana
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