mandalalike
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editmandalalike (comparative more mandalalike, superlative most mandalalike)
- Resembling or characteristic of a mandala (ritualistic geometric design).
- 1976, James D Simmonds, Milton studies:
- This mandalalike garden, often depicted with the four rivers of paradise, is a sacred place with the Virgin as the protective wall...
- 1985, Stanislav Grof, Beyond the brain: birth, death, and transcendence in psychotherapy:
- ...the individual can see a variety of geometrical or architectural forms — dynamic kaleidoscopic patterns, mandalalike configurations, arabesques...
- 1987, David Hayman, Re-forming the narrative: toward a mechanics of modernist fiction:
- Sollers provides a possible key when he describes the mandalalike geometric figure (shown below) that adorns the book's front cover to Giordano Bruno...