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:If "mandala" was used in the dialogue, then I can understand its usage here. But you and (more importantly) the writers are wrong about the usage being correct. Certainly not in reference to Hindu and Buddhist mandalas. For what it's worth, I have a Ph.D. in Asian art history and have studied mandalas in detail. But I'm not such a prude as to think that the usage has to be exact in a TV show. But maybe it would be good to explain that the show's usage of the term is not really correct. The image is an icon, a symbolic representation of the nova, the Eye of Jupiter. It's not a mandala. Even if it were used in meditation practices, it would still be an icon, not a mandala. A mandala can have symbols and/or icons within it, but it is itself a diagram. A map, if you will. --[[User:Rasmus|Rasmus]] 08:24, 24 January 2007 (CST) | :If "mandala" was used in the dialogue, then I can understand its usage here. But you and (more importantly) the writers are wrong about the usage being correct. Certainly not in reference to Hindu and Buddhist mandalas. For what it's worth, I have a Ph.D. in Asian art history and have studied mandalas in detail. But I'm not such a prude as to think that the usage has to be exact in a TV show. But maybe it would be good to explain that the show's usage of the term is not really correct. The image is an icon, a symbolic representation of the nova, the Eye of Jupiter. It's not a mandala. Even if it were used in meditation practices, it would still be an icon, not a mandala. A mandala can have symbols and/or icons within it, but it is itself a diagram. A map, if you will. --[[User:Rasmus|Rasmus]] 08:24, 24 January 2007 (CST) | ||
::Putting that in a few sentences in the notes section would be fine I guess. That whole part about the use of the mandala would fit better there than in analysis --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 08:27, 24 January 2007 (CST) | ::Putting that in a few sentences in the notes section would be fine I guess. That whole part about the use of the mandala would fit better there than in analysis --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 08:27, 24 January 2007 (CST) | ||