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The Mandala Cultural Model can play a significant role in sustainable tourism: Interweaving Tibetan Buddhist landscape with architecture, nature,religious and man´s movements

Ping Xu    

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The Mandala is the Buddhist cosmic model, showing the universe as centered around the Buddha?s dwellingplace. Emphasizing the integrative relationship between architecture and landscape, and based on field investigations ofTibetan temples throughout China, this paper discusses how the Mandala Model was utilized to structure Tibetan architectureand landscape at various scales. Unifying spatial organizations, the Mandala Model serves to interweave Tibetan Buddhistlandscapes with architecture, nature, religious meanings and man?s movements. It is this integrative system that is the keyconcept to understand why and how Tibet has sustained itself as one of the most fascinating destinations in the world.Keywords: Modelo Mandala, Buddha, architecture, landscape, environment.El Mándala es el modelo cósmico budista, mostrando que el universo esta lo centrado alrededor del lugar dela vivienda del Buda. Acentuando la relación integrativa entre la arquitectura y el paisaje, y basado en investigaciones decampo de templos tibetanos a través de China, este trabajo discute cómo el modelo de Mándala fue utilizado para estructurararquitectura y paisaje tibetanos en varias escalas. Unificando las organizaciones espaciales, el modelo de Mándala sirvepara interrelacionar paisajes budistas tibetanos con arquitectura, la naturaleza, significados religiosos y los movimientosdel hombre. Es este sistema integrativo que es el concepto dominante para entender porqué y cómo el Tíbet se ha sostenidocomo una de las destinaciones más fascinadoras del mundo.Palabras claves: Modelo Mándala, Buda, arquitectura, paisaje, ambiente.

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