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About the diagram archive: Damiani created diagrams that used astrological symbolism to represent the intertwining of cosmological and metaphysical ideas. You can view below the diagrams in these sketchbooks (the names assigned to the sketchbooks don’t represent a chronological order), or click here to learn more about them.
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The Nidana Chain and Cosmic Skandhas; Saturn and Sun Dignities ("Who" and "What")

Nidana Chain and the Five Skandhas (Buddhism)


Keyword(s): Saturn and Sun dignities; vesica (houses 11-12)
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The Nidana Chain, Skandhas, Elements, and Chakras Mapped on to a Vesica of Houses 10-12

Nidana Chain and the Five Skandhas (Buddhism)


Keyword(s): Buddhist Logicians; five elements; four essential dignities (Astrology); seven chakras (Hinduism); six realms of existence (Buddhism)
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The Twelve Liberated Gods and the Nidana Chain Contrasted

Nidana Chain and the Five Skandhas (Buddhism)


Keyword(s): twelve liberated gods (Orphic); vesica (houses 10-12)
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The Twelve Liberated Gods and the Nidana Chain Mapped on to a Vesica of Houses 10-12

Nidana Chain and the Five Skandhas (Buddhism)


Keyword(s): twelve liberated gods (Orphic)
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The Five Skandhas in the Context of Universal Manifestation (Houses 9-12)

Nidana Chain and the Five Skandhas (Buddhism)


Keyword(s): Vaibhashika
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The Nidana Chain in the Context of the Three Levels of the Cosmos

Nidana Chain and the Five Skandhas (Buddhism)
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Five Cosmic Skandhas and Six Nidanas Mapped on to Houses 4-9, with an Explanation of the Function of Attachment, the Ninth Link

Nidana Chain and the Five Skandhas (Buddhism)
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The Five Cosmic Skandhas Combined into Individual Wholes by Jupiter in Sagittarius

Nidana Chain and the Five Skandhas (Buddhism)


Keyword(s): Aristotle’s four causes; Buddhist stupa, symbolism of; five chakras (Buddhism); five elements
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The Nidana Chain Correlated with the Twelve Houses

Nidana Chain and the Five Skandhas (Buddhism)
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The Components of the Buddhist Mandala

Nidana Chain and the Five Skandhas (Buddhism)


Keyword(s): Buddhist Logicians; eight consciousnesses (Yogacara Buddhism); five chakras (Buddhism); five Dhyani Buddhas; five elements; five functions of manas (Awakening of Faith); four essential dignities (Astrology); metaphysical chart; nidana chain and five skandhas; seven cosmic tattvas (Theosophy); seven principles of a human being (Theosophy); six realms of existence (Buddhism)