
This boardgame was devised in its original form by the Tibetan Buddhist theologian Sakya Pandita in the early 13th century CE as an entertainment for his ailing mother. Called “Determination of the Ascension of Stages”, it uses the form of a simple die-governed race game to model the physical and metaphysical geography of the world as understood in Hindu and Buddhist cosmology, and the stages of enlightenment or initiation by which one approaches Nirvana. The game board itself can be considered a mandala. – [Ingame description]









a silly game use arrows and enter –
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