Japanese Pilgrimage Mandalas

Gunma GIS Geek has used the Leaflet mapping platform to exercise interactive maps from a twain of famous Japanese pilgrimage mandalas. Pilgrimage mandalas are paintings which render a panoramic persuasion of temple together with shrine sites.

The start map on Temple Pilgrimage Mandala is of the Nachi Pilgrimage Mandala. This 16th–17th century hanging scroll depicts the Nachi Shrine on the Kii Peninsula inwards Japan. The paradigm presents the journeying of 2 pilgrims (the twain clothed inwards white) every bit they operate into the scene (bottom right) together with accept a circuitous road through the temple complex to the Nachi shrine.


You tin larn to a greater extent than virtually approximately of the over l buildings depicted inwards the paradigm on the Embodying Compassion website. Embodying Compassion includes an interactive version of the Nachi Pilgrimage Mandala. This interactive version of the mandala features a position out of markers which allow you lot to larn to a greater extent than virtually the buildings, temples together with statues depicted inwards the mandala.

You tin persuasion to a greater extent than examples of paintings which stimulate got been made interactive using mapping libraries inwards Putting the Art into Cartography.