Buddha Life: Sakayamuni Buddha was born about 2549 years ago in Lumbini, Nepal. He was known as Siddhartha Gautama, a prince and son of King Suddhodana and Queen Mayadevi. At the age of 29, he renounced the luxury of his royal heritage to take up the life of a religious wanderer. He submitted himself to rigorous and extreme ascetic practices, putting forth a superhuman struggle for six strenuous years. At the age of 35, after gaining profound insight into the true nature of reality (Dharma), he attained complete enlightenment. For the remainder of his life, living as the perfect embodiment of all the virtues he preached, the Buddha ('Awakened One') traveled widely teaching the Dharma.


Traditional Buddha Mandala: the aerial view of the stupa ( Buddhist Temple) , represents the universes ; micro, and macro.
It is tantric meditational device, which is used to acquire positive energy and to achieve Buddha nature.
In the Mandala, there are four rings with fire that burns impurities and ignorance contains within every individual being and leads towards enlightenment, cemetery, where powerful and enlightened beings medate to push them towards Nirvana, wind or devas purifies the negative deeds or Karma ,and lotus implant purity and compassion to get into center to achieve Nirvana, here represented by Buddha.
There are four gates in four different directions which leads towards center, and thirteen level of square box, which represent thirteen level of consciousness, which are also called thirteen different steps of Boddhisattva , and then the center, where Buddha is placed, represents Nirvana ( peaceful and happy state of life).
The outer part of the MANDALA shows the Samsaric life, where six different forms of life are shown, and Buddha, Boddhisattva, and protectors deities are very much eager to help them to liberate from Samsaric World.

~~While of Life Thangka Painting~~

Hub: the three poisons
The images in the hub of the wheel represent the three poisons of anger, ignorance and greediness.

Second layer: karma
One half-circle (usually light) shows contented people moving upwards to higher states, possibly to the higher realms.
The other half-circle (usually dark) shows people in a miserable state being led downwards to lower states, possibly to the lower realms.

Third layer: the six realms of samsara
The three higher realms are shown in the top half of the circle; the higher realms consist of the god realm, the demi-god realm and the human realm..
The three lower realms are shown in the bottom half of the circle; the lower realms consist of the hell realm, the animal realm and the hungry ghost realm.

Size: 26cm x 22cm [Each one is of same size]