What is a Mandala

What is a Mandala?

• A type of spicy Indian curry
• A traditional dance in South American culture
• A type of flower found in the Amazon rainforest
• A design made of repeating shapes and lines that go around a circle.

Mandala means​ (a)   in ​ (b)   .

• Circle
• Sanskrit
• Square
• French
• Triangle
• English

Sanskrit is

• एक प्राचीन भाषा है

  An ancient Indian language

• 
• A modern computer programming language
• A type of pasta

Mandalas are used in which cultural religions?

• Hinduism and Buddhism
• Christianity and Islam
• Judaism and Sikhism
• Taoism and Shintoism

Who creates sand Mandalas?

• Construction workers
• Buddhist monks
• Children
• Scientists

A ​ (a)   is a metal funnel used in mandala sand painting.

• chak-pur
• sand clock
• metal flower
• mandala pot

What is a radial design?

• 
• A design that radiates out from a central point
• A design that is triangular in shape
• A design that is square in shape

How long does it take to create a sand mandala?

• It takes only a few hours to create a sand mandala.
• It takes several weeks to create a sand mandala.
• It takes just a few minutes to create a sand mandala.
• It typically takes 3 to 5 days to create a sand mandala.

When a mandala is finished it is ​ (a)   away. The sand is then ​ (b)   to the river.

• brushed
• returned
• burned
• buried
• eaten

A mandala uses which design element?

• Geometric shapes
• Simple and plain lines
• Radial Symmetry

• Random chaos