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The mandalas were meant to be objects of contemplation, aids to meditation, their proportions magically balanced to purify and calm the mind. To stare at a mandala was to experience, if only briefly, the nothingness that is at the heart of enlightenment.

Douglas Preston

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Douglas Preston
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 20
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Douglas Jerome Preston
Douglas J. Preston
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