The Kalachakra Mandala is the most complex of all mandalas, housing the mandalas of Body, Speech, and Mind and representing a total of 722 deities. In the Kalachakra Mind Mandala, only the deities of the Mind Mandala reside. This is not to say that the latter is incomplete. Since the mind dominates body and speech, if one purifies or tames the mind, the body and speech will also be purified. That is why in Tibetan Buddhism, intention or motivation is more important than the physical actions of body and speech. The Kalachakra Mind Mandala represents the essence of the more elaborate Kalachakra Mandala.
The palace is divided into four quadrants each with walls, gates, and a centre. The colours are specific representations of the elements and mental types. Black, in the east, is associated with the element of wind. The south is red, its element is fire. The west is yellow, associated with the element of earth, and the north is white, representing water.
In certain mandalas, the four directions within the palace are indicated by different colours. The east is indicated by white, west by red, north by green and the south by yellow while the center is painted blue. The Kalachakra-tantra, however, prescribes a completely different colour scheme to indicate different directions: the colour black indicates east, yellow west, white north, and red stands for the south.
Tibetans revere this ephemeral particle Mandala as a sacred object in itself. They believe that is healing to the ordinary person, and in the subliminial trigger of the visualization power od the initiate. They believe, that anyone who beholds it with good will and faith will be reborn during the Tibetan "New Age" time of fruition, known as the Golden Age of Shambhala. And, most generally, they believe that just to behold it plants a genetic impulse toward enlightenment in the mind stream of any being.