mandala
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This use and understanding of the mandala was another distinction of Shingon Buddhism differentiating it in Kûkai's mind as esoteric from exoteric Buddhism.
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- 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
- 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
- In the sky over the Alexanderplatz he has seen Oberst Enzian's KEZVH mandala, and the face of Tchitcherine on more than one random snowdrop. — Gravity's Rainbow
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This use and understanding of the mandala was another distinction of Shingon Buddhism differentiating it in Kûkai's mind as esoteric from exoteric Buddhism.
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Essentially a mandala is a holistic representation of the 'integration' or 'wholeness' of the
— planet.journals.ie
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- Sanskrit maṇḍalam, circle.
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/ (mŭnˈdə-lə)/
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