Symmetries

Very detailed!

This was very interesting. It is said to be a mandala. It greatly differs from all of the other mandalas which I have seen thus far. However, it still has symmetry.

 Here’s an example of another mandala.

Mandala’s are incorporated into the spiritual beliefs of many people besides Tibetan Monks. here’s a example of a mandala which is used for other spiritual beliefs.

This is the creation of a mandala, whose design slightly differs from those seen in the Rubin Museum

Religious meaning

A yantra is a two- or three-dimensional geometric composition used in sadhanas, or meditative rituals. It is thought to be the abode of the deity. Each yantra is unique and calls the deity into the presence of the practitioner through the elaborate symbolic geometric designs. According to one scholar, “Yantras function as revelatory symbols of cosmic truths and as instructional charts of the spiritual aspect of human experience”^[5]

Many situate yantras as central focus points for Hindu tantric practice.Yantras are not representations, but are lived, experiential, nondual realities. As Khanna describes:

Despite its cosmic meanings a yantra is a reality lived. Because of the relationship that exists in the Tantras between the outer world (the macrocosm) and man’s inner world (the microcosm), every symbol in a yantra is ambivalently resonant in inner–outer synthesis, and is associated with the subtle body and aspects of human consciousness.^[6]

Mandala

This pretty mandala is from a sidewalk in Prospect Heights! It’s interesting how when you start looking, they’re everywhere.

mm border in corner wall

& D4 Mandala

d 12 graphic design

D8 Symmetry graphic design

D6 Symmetry art painting

A mandala being drawn in the city. Mandalas are popular even outside the museums.

This huge mandala can be seen at the Museum of Natural History

I think it’s interesting how mandalas and border patterns are everywhere, even in the way we build roads… This is a traffic circle from my hometown, Helsinki, Finland.

I saw this pretty mandala-ish figure on the lid of a jar…

Not all mandalas are artificially constructed for artistic purposes; they can be constructed naturally as well. The two flowers above have each formed a mandala-image. The petals and stigmas have effectively separated the structure into several sections, and thus they have naturally constructed a mandala of its own.