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Doodling vs Mandala - What's the difference?

doodling | mandala |

As nouns the difference between doodling and mandala

is that doodling is something doodled; a careless sketch while mandala is (hinduism|buddhism) a graphic depiction of the spiritual universe and its myriad realms and deities.

As a verb doodling

is .

doodling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something doodled; a careless sketch.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=August 9, author=Michael Shae, title=Wilde’s Library, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=So the persistent researcher may still track down at least a few of Wilde’s own annotations and doodlings and wine stains and broken spines, parsing them for whatever they may reveal. }}

    mandala

    English

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Hinduism, Buddhism) A graphic depiction of the spiritual universe and its myriad realms and deities.
  • (Hinduism, Buddhism) Any ritualistic geometric design, symbolic of the Universe, used as an aid to meditation.
  • A division or book of the Rigveda (of which there are 10).

    • Coordinate terms

    * magic circle

    Quotations

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