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The museum was very calming, the stairs and the resonance of the harmonic music spiraled up to reveal the true markings on the lovely mandala that hung above. The exhibits were very intricate from the gold sculptures that required a 360 view, to the hanging head of “The Terrible,” to paintings, to bowls, to the crystal mandala on top. The exhibit was nice and very thought probing- as one reached the fourth floor one saw side by side comparisons of Christian paintings and sculptures that pared (sort of replica-like) to Buddhist paintings and sculptures symbolically. The comparison that really stuck out at me was the comparison of The Female Divine with The Virgin Mary, partly because I never heard/thought of that before. What I loved is that the museum at no point got into theological interpretations and bias informed descriptions of the works, but let the works stand on their own caliber. Yet, I would have like to read more about the mandalas- the process the monks go through to make them and its significance, but one could ask the guides that. Overall I enjoyed my experience at the Rubin, oh and the true intricate markings of the glass mandala hanging from the ceiling were human silhouettes.

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