mandalalike

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1. Resembling or characteristic of a mandala (ritualistic geometric design).

   This mandalalike garden, often depicted with the four rivers of paradise, is a sacred place with the Virgin as the protective wall...

   1976, James D Simmonds, Milton studies

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   ...the individual can see a variety of geometrical or architectural forms — dynamic kaleidoscopic patterns, mandalalike configurations, arabesques...

   1985, Stanislav Grof, Beyond the brain: birth, death, and transcendence in psychotherapy

   Sollers provides a possible key when he describes the mandalalike geometric figure (shown below) that adorns the book's front cover to Giordano Bruno...

   1987, David Hayman, Re-forming the narrative: toward a mechanics of modernist fiction