ON MANDAL KILMAK RITE IN BUDDHIST UYGHUR TEXTS

Since Buddhist Uyghur texts are religious texts, these texts express many semantic values. There is an expression of mandal, mandal k？lmak in the Old Uyghur texts. The ma？？ala word, which originated in Sanskrit, has an important place in Mahāyāna Buddhism and Tantric Buddhism. Ma？？ala, which has a magical and symbolic meaning, is related to the formation of human physiology in Buddhism, the construction of cities, towns, palaces and the formation of the universe. The Ma？？ala which examined in this is also symbolized entrance/ transition as well as formation of the universe. Ma？？ala consists of a square outer frame made of straight lines, concentric circles, and an arrangement of stylized lotus leaves. Ma？？ala have four gates that are opened in four directions and four guards who guarded the gates. In the middle of the Ma？？ala is a stick that expresses the tree of life, and there is also water passing next to stick. Thus the creation of the cosmic world is completed. The person offers various sacrifices for Buddha and Bodhisattvas in here and then washed with water which boiled with medicinal herbs. So it exits cleanly from the Ma？？ala diagram that you have entered as dirty. Ma？？ala means to get rid of all the dirt and to start again the immaculate life. This is an entrance/transition ceremony