Editing Mandala (section)

=====Mount Meru=====

A mandala can also represent the entire universe, which is traditionally depicted with [[Mount Meru]] as the [[axis mundi]] in the center, surrounded by the continents.<ref>Mipham (2000) pp. 65,80</ref> One example is the [https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/39738 ''Cosmological Mandala with Mount Meru''], a [[silk]] [[tapestry]] from the [[Yuan dynasty]] that serves as a diagram of the Tibetan cosmology, which was given to China from Nepal and Tibet.<ref>{{cite web|title=Cosmological Mandala with Mount Meru|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/39738|website=The Metropolitan Museum of Art|access-date=19 November 2017|archive-date=5 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171205084020/https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/39738|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Watt|first1=James C.Y.|title=The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty|date=2010|publisher=Yale University Press|location=New York|page=247|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/The_World_of_Khubilai_Khan_Chinese_Art_in_the_Yuan_Dynasty#|access-date=19 November 2017|archive-date=7 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171207130947/https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/The_World_of_Khubilai_Khan_Chinese_Art_in_the_Yuan_Dynasty|url-status=live}}</ref>