mandalalike

English

Etymology

From mandala +‎ -like.

Adjective

mandalalike (comparative more mandalalike, superlative most mandalalike)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a mandala (ritualistic geometric design).
   • 1976, James D Simmonds, Milton studies:

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

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

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

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

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