How does the Mandala of the Peaceful and Wrathful Deities of the Bardo (on the 4th floor) compare, in terms of symmetries, with the others on display at the Rubin? What symmetries does it lack?
Peaceful and Wrathful Symmetries
March 7, 2013 Written by Laurence Kirby | 2 Comments
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Jessica Saltzman // Apr 3rd 2013 at 6:32 pm
When I visited the museum, I was told that this piece was only available online. I noticed that while this Mandala contains symmetry along the vertical axis (it can be reflected in regard to shape and pattern, but not necessarily color), it is lacking in reflectional symmetry along the horizontal axis.
cl090332 // May 23rd 2013 at 6:13 pm
This Mandala is different from most of the other Mandalas in the Rubin.
First of all, we can see that most of the other Mandalas use different patterns, like rectangles and some of them have triangles, other than circles, but circle is the only pattern on this Mandala.
Second, other Mandalas are symmetry horizontally and vertically. This one, we can see that, it’s only bilateral symmetry.