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Friday, March 29, 2024


Exhibition Public - USA & Canada

Enter the Mandala: Mental Maps and Cosmic Centers of Himalayan Buddhism

Asian Art Museum
200 Larkin St,
San Francisco, California, USA
Mar 14, 2014 To Oct 26, 2014


Detail: Minutely detailed and saturated with philosophical meaning, these works (most often paintings or sculptures) are a feast for the eyes and the mind—nested squares and circles are arrayed to represent the center of the cosmos and the four cardinal directions. For Buddhist practitioners, however, mandalas are not just images to view, but worlds to enter—after recreating the image in their mind’s eye, meditators imaginatively enter its realm.

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