One Million Mandalas: For You to Create, Print, and Color

by Madonna Gauding

Mandalas are one of the most popular aids to meditation, with people worldwide finding enlightenment through the simple task of bringing a sparse outline to colorful life. Previous books have featured mandalas in black and white outline which users hand-color in. However, once the book is completed you have to buy new books to maintain your meditations. One Million Mandalas offers readers a lifetime of beautiful designs to color in and use for meditation. The disk's easily accessible art is usable in three with a couple of clicks you will be able to select and print one of the basic mandala designs, construct your own mandala by different ring designs from a drop-down menu, or randomly generate a mandala. Because there are 100 centers, 100 middle rings, and 100 outer rings, the disk supplies one million possible permutations andcombinations! The book is complete with an introduction to the concept of mandalas, and the history and philosophy behind them, along with clear directions on using the CD-ROM, and a complete visual catalog of all the mandala designs in the program.

Genres: Crafts, Art

128 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Madonna Gauding is a mandala artist, author, illustrator and designer. She has written widely on meditation, Buddhism and healing; her previous work includes the best-selling World Mandalas.

Reviews

[James · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice! This book comes with a CD-ROM that lets you choose from selections of different mandala sections (outer, inner, and middle rings of round mandalas) to mix and match, then as the title says, to print out in black and white.
To me, coloring a mandala, or any abstract design, is a relaxing and meditative activity. For some, the specific symbolism will also be important. This book and CD-ROM makes it very easy to create new mandalas - I'd say anyone over about age 5 could learn to use it fairly quickly. If you're a visual thinker who finds mandalas or other abstract art forms relaxing, meditative, or spiritually useful, this book is a great find. I'm giving it four stars instead of five because the mandalas it can produce are kind of limited in form (the three concentric rings) and it would have been fairly easy to offer some additional choices.