Incense burner and storage box Mandala rose quartz mango wood

A mango wood incense burner with suitable inserts for joss sticks, Tibetan incense and dhoop cones, decorated with gemstone chips. Features a handy storage compartment for incense sticks.

How to use
Light an incense stick or dhoop cone and place in the appropriate holder.

Once the incense is smouldering properly, close the lid.

Warning!
Never leave burning incense unattended.
Keep out of reach of children and pets.
Do not place near flammable objects or in draughty areas.

Mandala

Mandala is a Sanskrit word for circle, and a mandala is a design built up in concentric rings and symmetries around a single centre. In the traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism it is at once a map of the cosmos and an image of the awakened mind, and it serves as a support for meditation: the eye and the attention travel inward from the edge towards the centre, and the ordered whole is meant to gather a scattered mind into one point. To make a mandala, to enter it and to rest at its centre is itself a form of practice.

In Tibetan Buddhism mandalas are painted as the palace of a buddha, and the famous sand mandalas are laid grain by grain over many days and then swept away, a deliberate lesson in impermanence. Related diagrams, the yantras, are used in Hinduism. The psychologist Carl Jung saw in the mandala an image of wholeness, arising of its own accord in dreams and drawings. Whatever the setting, the form is the same: a centre, circles and squares around it, often with gates at the four directions. The mandala is found as art, as textile and as jewellery, and is kept as a focus for contemplation.

Rose quartz | The classic stone of the heart. Associated with unconditional love, self-love and emotional healing. Believed to open the heart to compassion, attract and restore loving relationships, and gently soothe grief, resentment and heartache.