1. mandala - Noun
2. mandala - Verb
3. Mandala - Proper noun
any of various geometric designs (usually circular) symbolizing the universe; used chiefly in Hinduism and Buddhism as an aid to meditation
Source: WordNetA page from a journal of modern experimental physics will be as mysterious to the uninitiated as a Tibetan mandala. Both are records of enquiries into the nature of the universe. Fritjof Capra
The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form. Stephen Gardiner
Many but not all my cannabis trips have somewhere in them a symbolism significant to me which I won't attempt to describe here, a kind of mandala embossed on the high. Carl Sagan
Here, in the company of the mindless trees, the free-flying birds, the bugs and frogs that passed from stimulus directly to response without the interval of consciousness between, did I hope to lose myself in the living mandala of evolution's less self-tortured forms. Norman Spinrad
I knew what a circle could do. Both eyes focus on it. It stamps itself out, like a dot. This, in turn, causes one's vision to spread, as in a mandala in Tantric art. Kenneth Noland
A depiction of a mandala may be less public than that of a deity. Source: Internet