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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  • And, lastly, under "Harmony," they had this 13th-century mandala from Tibet. —  Stefan Sagmeister shares happy design
  • He asked himself whether this might not be what mystics meant by seeing a mandala, and believed the suggestion might have been implanted by association with Govinda, an Asiatic. —  Mr. Sammler's Planet
  • They are creating a mandala, a patterned, circular symbol that represents the wholeness of nature and the universe. —  EBSCOhost
  • For its part, the crowd finds the monks themselves as fascinating as the mandala. —  EBSCOhost
  • To stare at a mandala was to experience, if only briefly, the nothingness that is at the heart of enlightenment. —  The Wheel of Darkness by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
 

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