中文简介：

曼陀罗来自印度文化领域，其原始意义为一个神圣的圆。它可以作为冥想的辅助工具，同时反映了严格的几何学基本形式的古老象征，并伴随着对其神圣内容的解释。作为一种更高亲和意识的表达，对称排列的几何可以在各种各样的绘画作品和不同时代和文化领域的建筑中找到，例如中世纪的书籍照明、伊斯坦布尔蓝色清真寺的平面图、Kazimir Malevich的黑色广场，或非洲、亚洲、澳大利亚和美洲原住民的各种物品中。基于这些以及来自知名博物馆和私人收藏的其他杰作，并通过独特的建筑和仪式的迷人照片进行说明，本书首次分析了艺术和建筑中的神圣几何现象及其潜在的意识形态。

英文简介：

Hailing from the cultural realm of India, the mandala signifies in its original sense a sacred circle. It serves as a meditation aid and at the same time reflects an ancient symbolism of strictly geometric basic forms accompanied by an interpretation of its sacred content. As an expression of the awareness of higher affinities, the symmetrically arranged geometry can be found in a variety of pictorial works and the architecture of various epochs and cultural realms, for example in medieval book illumination, the floor plan of the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, in Kazimir Malevich's Black Square, or in various objects of the indigenous peoples of Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Americas. Based on these and other masterpieces from renowned museums and private collections and illustrated in fascinating photographs of unique buildings and rituals, this publication offers an impressive first analysis of the phenomenon of sacred geometry in art and architecture and their underlying ideologies.