mandala

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Essentially a mandala is a holistic representation of the 'integration' or 'wholeness' of the

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  1. noun Any of various ritualistic geometric designs symbolic of the universe, used in Hinduism and Buddhism as an aid to meditation.

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  • Dumb, silly little girls - mirrors of their mother. —  Pop Goes The Weasel
  • It was a retinal mandala, a rosemaling of torn limbs and glutinous napalm-melted flesh, all blurring together in the surfglow of his closed eyes. —  In Other Worlds
  • A mandala is a wheel-like design the hippies had borrowed from a foreign religion, that symbolized the cosmos, the cosmic mind, God, or whatever needed a symbol. —  The Forever War
  • The symbol used is a rude mandala, a red circle with a thick black cross inside, recognizable as the ancient sun-wheel from which tradition says the swastika was broken by the early Christians, to disguise their outlaw symbol. —  Gravity's Rainbow
  • Essentially a mandala is a holistic representation of the 'integration' or 'wholeness' of the —  planet.journals.ie
 

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