Mandalas

They display abstract, symmetrical floral designs Jung came to identify as mandalas, along with almost childlike renderings of flames, trees, dragons and snakes, all in striking, bold colors. ❋ By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN (2010)

The brilliant colors and inherent ability of the feathers to reflect light produced complex optical illusions, including several highly accomplished "mandalas", or inwardly spiraling circular designs that proved very popular with collectors and art lovers. ❋ Unknown (2006)

This is why, to my mind, Cheng's Hong Kong mandalas embody the extent to which all signage that is the various visual and linguistic languages of all knowledge is composed with an aspect of the ineluctable subjectivity that must accompany the experience of any system of thought referring to the world. ❋ G. Roger Denson (2011)

But if the Hong Kong paintings are meant to recall mandalas, they certainly aren't the kind that intrigued Carl Jung with their symbolization of mythological pantheons and psycho-cultural archetypes. ❋ G. Roger Denson (2011)

The reader is assumed to be already familiar with the history and culture of Buddhism; while mandalas in general are rather briefly explained, the background of this Wheel is not. ❋ Doctorwho (2010)

Here Cheng pushes her art well beyond the iconography and artifacts of visually identifiable religions, and she does so with a lyrical deliquescence of the specific signage of faiths into swirling, largely abstract but also organic mandalas that approach the painted frenzy and metaphysical idealism, if not the visual and compositional dissonance, of Kandinsky. ❋ G. Roger Denson (2011)

They are building the Palace of Kalachakra, the most sacred of all Tibetan mandalas, made from colored sand. ❋ Mira Bartók (2011)

Our publisher reports on the ceremony at Grace Cathedral we recently told you was coming — starring kd lang, mandalas, and a whole lot of good people, young and not-so, getting together for an evening of beautiful moments. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Which are large beautiful mandalas made of crystals, and copper. ❋ Stacey Nemour (2012)

Then again there's the almost maddening claustrophobia of infinity mirrors and the meditative symmetries of Buddhist mandalas. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The mandalas of the East were round, curves without angles … The ancient Chinese knew the esoteric meaning of triangles, and so named the triangle formed by the triangle of Sirius the ‘Evil Stars’ for just that reason. ❋ Unknown (2010)

To the assembly of all meditational deities manifesting as countless mandalas and divinities - the magical clouds of immaculate, transcendent wisdom reaching to the farthest expanse of the space of ultimate reality - to you, we offer our prayers with fervent devotion: ❋ Daj42 (2009)